Re: [PATCH v2] virtio-blk: Fix hot-unplug race in remove method

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On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:37:45PM +0800, Asias He wrote:
> On 05/03/2012 03:56 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 03:30:47PM +0800, Asias He wrote:
> >>If we reset the virtio-blk device before the requests already dispatched
> >>to the virtio-blk driver from the block layer are finised, we will stuck
> >>in blk_cleanup_queue() and the remove will fail.
> >>
> >>blk_cleanup_queue() calls blk_drain_queue() to drain all requests queued
> >>before DEAD marking. However it will never success if the device is
> >>already stopped. We'll have q->in_flight[]>  0, so the drain will not
> >>finish.
> >>
> >>How to reproduce the race:
> >>1. hot-plug a virtio-blk device
> >>2. keep reading/writing the device in guest
> >>3. hot-unplug while the device is busy serving I/O
> >>
> >>Changes in v2:
> >>- Drop req_in_flight
> >>- Use virtqueue_detach_unused_buf to get request dispatched to driver
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Asias He<asias@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>---
> >>  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |   16 +++++++++++++---
> >>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >>diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> >>index 72fe55d..670c28f 100644
> >>--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> >>+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> >>@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static int __devinit virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> >>  	if (err)
> >>  		goto out_free_vblk;
> >>
> >>-	vblk->pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(1,sizeof(struct virtblk_req));
> >>+	vblk->pool = mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(1, sizeof(struct virtblk_req));
> >>  	if (!vblk->pool) {
> >>  		err = -ENOMEM;
> >>  		goto out_free_vq;
> >
> >Would be a bit easier to review if whitespace changes
> >are avoided, and done in a separate patch targeting 3.5.
> 
> Well, I will cook another patch for this.
> 
> >>@@ -576,20 +576,30 @@ static void __devexit virtblk_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> >>  {
> >>  	struct virtio_blk *vblk = vdev->priv;
> >>  	int index = vblk->index;
> >>+	struct virtblk_req *vbr;
> >>
> >>  	/* Prevent config work handler from accessing the device. */
> >>  	mutex_lock(&vblk->config_lock);
> >>  	vblk->config_enable = false;
> >>  	mutex_unlock(&vblk->config_lock);
> >>
> >>+	/* Abort all request on the queue. */
> >
> >All requests
> >
> >Also, the comment isn't
> >really helpful. Want to explain why we abort
> >them all here? Won't they be drained
> >by later detach code?
> 
> blk_cleanup_queue is trying to drain the queue by calling
> request_fn, which is do_virtblk_request in this case. As we already
> stopped the device when calling blk_cleanup_queue, the drain might
> fail if do_req fails.
> 
> blk_cleanup_queue
>    blk_drain_queue
>        while (true)
>           __blk_run_queue
>             q->request_fn(q);
> 
> >>+	blk_abort_queue(vblk->disk->queue);
> 
> And now, I realized that using blk_abort_queue here to abort the
> queue is not right. it is used for timeout handling
> (block/blk-timeout.c).
> 
> [ CC'ing Jens and Chris ]
> 
> I suspect the btrfs code is using this in the wrong way too:
> 
> btrfs_abort_devices() {
>         list_for_each_entry_rcu(dev, head, dev_list) {
>                 blk_abort_queue(dev->bdev->bd_disk->queue);
>         }
> }
> 
> >>+	del_gendisk(vblk->disk);
> >>+
> >>  	/* Stop all the virtqueues. */
> >>  	vdev->config->reset(vdev);
> >>-
> >>  	flush_work(&vblk->config_work);
> >>
> >>-	del_gendisk(vblk->disk);
> >
> >Is there a reason you move del_gendisk to before reset?
> >Is it safe to del_gendisk while we might
> >still be getting callbacks from the device?
> 
> The original idea was to make the block layer stop sending request
> to driver asap. This is wrong since virtblk_config_changed_work
> might access vblk->disk.

Maybe it's ok - vlk->disk isn't removed until put_disk.
Needs some thought.
For example we must make sure config requests
do not race with reset.
But it should be a separate patch anyway.


> >>+	/* Abort request dispatched to driver. */
> >>+	while ((vbr = virtqueue_detach_unused_buf(vblk->vq))) {
> >>+		blk_abort_request(vbr->req);
> >>+		mempool_free(vbr, vblk->pool);
> >>+	}
> >>+
> >>  	blk_cleanup_queue(vblk->disk->queue);
> >>  	put_disk(vblk->disk);
> >>+
> >>  	mempool_destroy(vblk->pool);
> >>  	vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
> >>  	kfree(vblk);
> >>--
> >>1.7.10
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