[PATCH 4/4] drm/virtio: Add memory barriers for capset cache.

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Jun 6 07:41:22 UTC 2019


On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 04:44:23PM -0700, davidriley at chromium.org wrote:
> From: David Riley <davidriley at chromium.org>
> 
> After data is copied to the cache entry, atomic_set is used indicate
> that the data is the entry is valid without appropriate memory barriers.
> Similarly the read side was missing the same memory barries.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Riley <davidriley at chromium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c | 3 +++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_vq.c    | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c
> index 88c1ed57a3c5..502f5f7c2298 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c
> @@ -542,6 +542,9 @@ static int virtio_gpu_get_caps_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev,
>  	if (!ret)
>  		return -EBUSY;
>  
> +	/* is_valid check must proceed before copy of the cache entry. */
> +	virt_rmb();

I don't think you need virt_rmb() here.  This isn't guest <=> host
communication, so a normal barrier should do.

The other three fixes are queued up for drm-misc-next.

cheers,
  Gerd



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