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-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/net.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/net.c b/drivers/vhost/net.c
index ab11b2bee273..ad7a6f475a44 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/net.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/net.c
@@ -513,7 +513,13 @@ static void vhost_net_busy_poll(struct vhost_net *net,
struct socket *sock;
struct vhost_virtqueue *vq = poll_rx ? tvq : rvq;
- mutex_lock_nested(&vq->mutex, poll_rx ? VHOST_NET_VQ_TX: VHOST_NET_VQ_RX);
+ /* Try to hold the vq mutex of the paired virtqueue. We can't
+ * use mutex_lock() here since we could not guarantee a
+ * consistenet lock ordering.
+ */
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&vq->mutex))
+ return;
+
vhost_disable_notify(&net->dev, vq);
sock = rvq->private_data;