vhost_net: switch to use mutex_trylock() in vhost_net_busy_poll()
We used to hold the mutex of paired virtqueue in vhost_net_busy_poll(). But this will results an inconsistent lock order which may cause deadlock if we try to bring back the protection of device IOTLB with vq mutex that requires to hold mutex of all virtqueues at the same time. Fix this simply by switching to use mutex_trylock(), when fail just skip the busy polling. This can happen when device IOTLB is under updating which should be rare. Fixes: commit 78139c94 ("net: vhost: lock the vqs one by one") Cc: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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