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Commit e3f78718 authored by Jean-Philippe Brucker's avatar Jean-Philippe Brucker Committed by David S. Miller
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vhost: fix IOTLB locking



Commit 78139c94 ("net: vhost: lock the vqs one by one") moved the vq
lock to improve scalability, but introduced a possible deadlock in
vhost-iotlb. vhost_iotlb_notify_vq() now takes vq->mutex while holding
the device's IOTLB spinlock. And on the vhost_iotlb_miss() path, the
spinlock is taken while holding vq->mutex.

Since calling vhost_poll_queue() doesn't require any lock, avoid the
deadlock by not taking vq->mutex.

Fixes: 78139c94 ("net: vhost: lock the vqs one by one")
Acked-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 4763c9f9
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