Commit 2d61ba95 authored by Michael S. Tsirkin's avatar Michael S. Tsirkin Committed by Rusty Russell
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virtio: order used ring after used index read



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: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
parent 0b22bd0b
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@@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ static void *vring_get_buf(struct virtqueue *_vq, unsigned int *len)
		return NULL;
		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;
	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;
	*len = vq->vring.used->ring[vq->last_used_idx%vq->vring.num].len;