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virtio: order used ring after used index read

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On SMP guests, reads from the ring might bypass used index reads. This
causes guest crashes because host writes to used index to signal ring
data readiness.  Fix this by inserting rmb before used ring reads.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Michael S. Tsirkin 2009-10-25 15:28:53 +02:00 committed by Rusty Russell
parent 0b22bd0ba0
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drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
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@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ static void *vring_get_buf(struct virtqueue *_vq, unsigned int *len)
return NULL;
}
/* Only get used array entries after they have been exposed by host. */
rmb();
i = vq->vring.used->ring[vq->last_used_idx%vq->vring.num].id;
*len = vq->vring.used->ring[vq->last_used_idx%vq->vring.num].len;