linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/3] xen-blkback: Advertise feature-persistent as user requested

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Date:   Wed, 31 Aug 2022 16:58:22 +0000
From:   SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
To:     jgross@...e.com, roger.pau@...rix.com
Cc:     SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>, marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com,
        mheyne@...zon.de, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, axboe@...nel.dk,
        ptyadav@...zon.de, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] xen-blkback: Advertise feature-persistent as user requested

The advertisement of the persistent grants feature (writing
'feature-persistent' to xenbus) should mean not the decision for using
the feature but only the availability of the feature.  However, commit
aac8a70db24b ("xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent
grants") made a field of blkback, which was a place for saving only the
negotiation result, to be used for yet another purpose: caching of the
'feature_persistent' parameter value.  As a result, the advertisement,
which should follow only the parameter value, becomes inconsistent.

This commit fixes the misuse of the semantic by making blkback saves the
parameter value in a separate place and advertises the support based on
only the saved value.

Fixes: aac8a70db24b ("xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants")
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 5.10.x
Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h | 3 +++
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
index bda5c815e441..a28473470e66 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@ struct xen_vbd {
 	sector_t		size;
 	unsigned int		flush_support:1;
 	unsigned int		discard_secure:1;
+	/* Connect-time cached feature_persistent parameter value */
+	unsigned int		feature_gnt_persistent_parm:1;
+	/* Persistent grants feature negotiation result */
 	unsigned int		feature_gnt_persistent:1;
 	unsigned int		overflow_max_grants:1;
 };
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
index ee7ad2fb432d..c0227dfa4688 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ static void connect(struct backend_info *be)
 	xen_blkbk_barrier(xbt, be, be->blkif->vbd.flush_support);
 
 	err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-persistent", "%u",
-			be->blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent);
+			be->blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent_parm);
 	if (err) {
 		xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "writing %s/feature-persistent",
 				 dev->nodename);
@@ -1085,7 +1085,9 @@ static int connect_ring(struct backend_info *be)
 		return -ENOSYS;
 	}
 
-	blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent = feature_persistent &&
+	blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent_parm = feature_persistent;
+	blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent =
+		blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent_parm &&
 		xenbus_read_unsigned(dev->otherend, "feature-persistent", 0);
 
 	blkif->vbd.overflow_max_grants = 0;
-- 
2.25.1