Re: [PATCH] xen/blkfront: improve protection against issuing unsupported REQ_FUA

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Mon Nov 03 2014 - 10:47:23 EST


On 11/03/2014 07:22 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
On 10/27/14 14:44, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
Guard against issuing unsupported REQ_FUA and REQ_FLUSH was introduced
in d11e61583 and was factored out into blkif_request_flush_valid() in
0f1ca65ee. However:
1) This check in incomplete. In case we negotiated to feature_flush = REQ_FLUSH
and flush_op = BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE (so FUA is unsupported) FUA request
will still pass the check.
2) blkif_request_flush_valid() is misnamed. It is bool but returns true when
the request is invalid.
3) When blkif_request_flush_valid() fails -EIO is being returned. It seems that
-EOPNOTSUPP is more appropriate here.
Fix all of the above issues.

This patch is based on the original patch by Laszlo Ersek and a comment by
Jeff Moyer.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c | 14 ++++++++------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 5ac312f..2e6c103 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -582,12 +582,14 @@ static inline void flush_requests(struct blkfront_info *info)
notify_remote_via_irq(info->irq);
}
-static inline bool blkif_request_flush_valid(struct request *req,
- struct blkfront_info *info)
+static inline bool blkif_request_flush_invalid(struct request *req,
+ struct blkfront_info *info)
{
return ((req->cmd_type != REQ_TYPE_FS) ||
- ((req->cmd_flags & (REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA)) &&
- !info->flush_op));
+ ((req->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH) &&
+ !(info->feature_flush & REQ_FLUSH)) ||
+ ((req->cmd_flags & REQ_FUA) &&
+ !(info->feature_flush & REQ_FUA)));

Somewhat unrelated to the patch, but I am wondering whether we actually need flush_op field at all as it seems that it is unambiguously defined by REQ_FLUSH/REQ_FUA.

-boris

}
/*
@@ -612,8 +614,8 @@ static void do_blkif_request(struct request_queue *rq)
blk_start_request(req);
- if (blkif_request_flush_valid(req, info)) {
- __blk_end_request_all(req, -EIO);
+ if (blkif_request_flush_invalid(req, info)) {
+ __blk_end_request_all(req, -EOPNOTSUPP);
continue;
}

Not sure if there has been some feedback yet (I can't see anything
threaded with this message in my inbox).

FWIW I consulted "Documentation/block/writeback_cache_control.txt" for
this review. Apparently, REQ_FLUSH forces out "previously completed
write requests", whereas REQ_FUA delays the IO completion signal for
*this* request until "the data has been committed to non-volatile
storage". So, indeed, support for REQ_FLUSH only does not guarantee that
REQ_FUA can be served.

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Laszlo

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