xen-blkback: fix persistent grants negotiation
authorSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 22:51:06 +0000 (22:51 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:24:28 +0000 (14:24 +0200)
commit7304be4c985de645c22854212bd7ea4709a2c449
tree06ba66ccef815a28fa57dba74adaf1668f2eb1ed
parent9e7dab7edabd59cc191cb78458206a4e0502fe73
xen-blkback: fix persistent grants negotiation

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@vger.kernel.org> # 5.10.x
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220715225108.193398-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c