virtio: console: add locking around c_ovq operations
authorAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:00:08 +0000 (16:30 +0530)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:55:46 +0000 (14:25 +1030)
commit9ba5c80b1aea8648a3efe5f22dc1f7cacdfbeeb8
treecdb191b7987323a4e454c9033ba4e449483ad57d
parent165b1b8bbc17c9469b053bab78b11b7cbce6d161
virtio: console: add locking around c_ovq operations

When multiple ovq operations are being performed (lots of open/close
operations on virtio_console fds), the __send_control_msg() function can
get confused without locking.

A simple recipe to cause badness is:
* create a QEMU VM with two virtio-serial ports
* in the guest, do
  while true;do echo abc >/dev/vport0p1;done
  while true;do echo edf >/dev/vport0p2;done

In one run, this caused a panic in __send_control_msg().  In another, I
got

   virtio_console virtio0: control-o:id 0 is not a head!

This also results repeated messages similar to these on the host:

  qemu-kvm: virtio-serial-bus: Unexpected port id 478762112 for device virtio-serial-bus.0
  qemu-kvm: virtio-serial-bus: Unexpected port id 478762368 for device virtio-serial-bus.0

Reported-by: FuXiangChun <xfu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
drivers/char/virtio_console.c