[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "vhost_net: clear msg.control for non-zerocopy case during tx" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    vhost_net: clear msg.control for non-zerocopy case during tx

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 4b22c3654e9a2ca5bf82a784605837ef3660e0ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 15:40:46 +0800
Subject: vhost_net: clear msg.control for non-zerocopy case during tx

[ Upstream commit 4364d5f96eed7994a2c625bd9216656e55fba0cb ]

When we decide not use zero-copy, msg.control should be set to NULL otherwise
macvtap/tap may set zerocopy callbacks which may decrease the kref of ubufs
wrongly.

Bug were introduced by commit cedb9bdce099206290a2bdd02ce47a7b253b6a84
(vhost-net: skip head management if no outstanding).

This solves the following warnings:

WARNING: at include/linux/kref.h:47 handle_tx+0x477/0x4b0 [vhost_net]()
Modules linked in: vhost_net macvtap macvlan tun nfsd exportfs bridge stp llc openvswitch kvm_amd kvm bnx2 megaraid_sas [last unloaded: tun]
CPU: 5 PID: 8670 Comm: vhost-8668 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc2+ #1566
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R715/00XHKG, BIOS 1.5.2 04/19/2011
ffffffffa0198323 ffff88007c9ebd08 ffffffff81796b73 ffff88007c9ebd48
ffffffff8103d66b 000000007b773e20 ffff8800779f0000 ffff8800779f43f0
ffff8800779f8418 000000000000015c 0000000000000062 ffff88007c9ebd58
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81796b73>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1e
[<ffffffff8103d66b>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6b/0xa0
[<ffffffff8103d6b5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffffa0197627>] handle_tx+0x477/0x4b0 [vhost_net]
[<ffffffffa0197690>] handle_tx_kick+0x10/0x20 [vhost_net]
[<ffffffffa019541e>] vhost_worker+0xfe/0x1a0 [vhost_net]
[<ffffffffa0195320>] ? vhost_attach_cgroups_work+0x30/0x30 [vhost_net]
[<ffffffffa0195320>] ? vhost_attach_cgroups_work+0x30/0x30 [vhost_net]
[<ffffffff81061f46>] kthread+0xc6/0xd0
[<ffffffff81061e80>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70
[<ffffffff817a1aec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffff81061e80>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/vhost/net.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index ec6fb3f..dfff647 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -353,7 +353,8 @@ static void handle_tx(struct vhost_net *net)
 				kref_get(&ubufs->kref);
 			}
 			vq->upend_idx = (vq->upend_idx + 1) % UIO_MAXIOV;
-		}
+		} else
+			msg.msg_control = NULL;
 		/* TODO: Check specific error and bomb out unless ENOBUFS? */
 		err = sock->ops->sendmsg(NULL, sock, &msg, len);
 		if (unlikely(err < 0)) {
--
1.8.1.2