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Commit 9c378abc authored by Michael S. Tsirkin's avatar Michael S. Tsirkin Committed by Rusty Russell
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virtio-balloon: fix add/get API use



Since ee7cd898 'virtio: expose added
descriptors immediately.', in virtio balloon virtqueue_get_buf might
now run concurrently with virtqueue_kick.  I audited both and this
seems safe in practice but this is not guaranteed by the API.
Additionally, a spurious interrupt might in theory make
virtqueue_get_buf run in parallel with virtqueue_add_buf, which is
racy.

While we might try to protect against spurious callbacks it's
easier to fix the driver: balloon seems to be the only one
(mis)using the API like this, so let's just fix balloon.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (removed unused var)
parent 02edf6ab
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