linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.10 510/545] xen-blkback: fix persistent grants negotiation

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Date:   Fri, 19 Aug 2022 17:44:40 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@...zon.de>,
        SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.10 510/545] xen-blkback: fix persistent grants negotiation

From: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>

commit fc9be616bb8f3ed9cf560308f86904f5c06be205 upstream.

Persistent grants feature can be used only when both backend and the
frontend supports the feature.  The feature was always supported by
'blkback', but commit aac8a70db24b ("xen-blkback: add a parameter for
disabling of persistent grants") has introduced a parameter for
disabling it runtime.

To avoid the parameter be updated while being used by 'blkback', the
commit caches the parameter into 'vbd->feature_gnt_persistent' in
'xen_vbd_create()', and then check if the guest also supports the
feature and finally updates the field in 'connect_ring()'.

However, 'connect_ring()' could be called before 'xen_vbd_create()', so
later execution of 'xen_vbd_create()' can wrongly overwrite 'true' to
'vbd->feature_gnt_persistent'.  As a result, 'blkback' could try to use
'persistent grants' feature even if the guest doesn't support the
feature.

This commit fixes the issue by moving the parameter value caching to
'xen_blkif_alloc()', which allocates the 'blkif'.  Because the struct
embeds 'vbd' object, which will be used by 'connect_ring()' later, this
should be called before 'connect_ring()' and therefore this should be
the right and safe place to do the caching.

Fixes: aac8a70db24b ("xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants")
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 5.10.x
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@...zon.de>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@...zon.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220715225108.193398-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c |   15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
@@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ static int xen_blkif_alloc_rings(struct
 	return 0;
 }

+/* Enable the persistent grants feature. */
+static bool feature_persistent = true;
+module_param(feature_persistent, bool, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(feature_persistent, "Enables the persistent grants feature");
+
 static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc(domid_t domid)
 {
 	struct xen_blkif *blkif;
@@ -181,6 +186,8 @@ static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc
 	__module_get(THIS_MODULE);
 	INIT_WORK(&blkif->free_work, xen_blkif_deferred_free);

+	blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent = feature_persistent;
+
 	return blkif;
 }

@@ -472,12 +479,6 @@ static void xen_vbd_free(struct xen_vbd
 	vbd->bdev = NULL;
 }

-/* Enable the persistent grants feature. */
-static bool feature_persistent = true;
-module_param(feature_persistent, bool, 0644);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(feature_persistent,
-		"Enables the persistent grants feature");
-
 static int xen_vbd_create(struct xen_blkif *blkif, blkif_vdev_t handle,
 			  unsigned major, unsigned minor, int readonly,
 			  int cdrom)
@@ -523,8 +524,6 @@ static int xen_vbd_create(struct xen_blk
 	if (q && blk_queue_secure_erase(q))
 		vbd->discard_secure = true;

-	vbd->feature_gnt_persistent = feature_persistent;
-
 	pr_debug("Successful creation of handle=%04x (dom=%u)\n",
 		handle, blkif->domid);
 	return 0;