tap: crash in multi-thread environment

In tap tx routine, virtio_interface_tx_inline, there used to be an
interface spinlock to ensure packets are processed in an orderly fashion
  clib_spinlock_lock_if_init (&vif->lockp);

When virtio code was introduced in 19.04, that line is changed to
  clib_spinlock_lock_if_init (&vring->lockp);
to accommodate multi-queues.

Unfortunately, althrough the spinlock exists in the vring, it was never
initialized for tap, only for virtio. As a result, many nasty things can
happen when running tap interface in multi-thread environment. Crash is
inevitable.

The fix is to initialize vring->lockp for tap and remove vif->lockp as it
is not used anymore.

Change-Id: I82b15d3e9b0fb6add9b9ac49bf602a538946634a
Signed-off-by: Mohsin Kazmi <sykazmi@cisco.com>
(cherry picked from commit c2c89782d34df0dc7197b18b042b4c2464a101ef)

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/vnet/devices/tap/tap.c b/src/vnet/devices/tap/tap.c
index a1a9fee2d77..35f1f2a3451 100644
--- a/src/vnet/devices/tap/tap.c
+++ b/src/vnet/devices/tap/tap.c
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ void
 tap_create_if (vlib_main_t * vm, tap_create_if_args_t * args)
 {
   vnet_main_t *vnm = vnet_get_main ();
-  vlib_thread_main_t *thm = vlib_get_thread_main ();
   virtio_main_t *vim = &virtio_main;
   tap_main_t *tm = &tap_main;
   vnet_sw_interface_t *sw;
@@ -448,8 +447,6 @@ tap_create_if (vlib_main_t * vm, tap_create_if_args_t * args)
 			  vif->sw_if_index, vif->tap_fd);
   vif->tap_file_index = clib_file_add (&file_main, &t);
 
-  if (thm->n_vlib_mains > 1)
-    clib_spinlock_init (&vif->lockp);
   goto done;
 
 error:
@@ -526,7 +523,6 @@ tap_delete_if (vlib_main_t * vm, u32 sw_if_index)
   vec_free (vif->txq_vrings);
 
   tm->tap_ids = clib_bitmap_set (tm->tap_ids, vif->id, 0);
-  clib_spinlock_free (&vif->lockp);
   clib_memset (vif, 0, sizeof (*vif));
   pool_put (mm->interfaces, vif);