Re: [PATCH 4/5] block: don't free submitter owned integrity payload on I/O completion

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On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 8:50 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 06:30:34PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
> > The patch will cause regression for nvme-passthrough. For that
> > completion order is:
> > (a) bio_endio()
> > (b) req->end_io
> > (c) blk_rq_unmap_user.
> >
> > And current code ensures that integrity is freed explicitly only after
> > (a) and (b).
> > With the patch, integrity will get freed during (a) itself.
>
> It is supposed to be freed from (c), specifically from
> blk_mq_map_bio_put.
> >
> > There are two places in bio_endio() that can free the integrity.
> > It first calls bio_integrity_endio() - which is handled fine above.
> > But it also calls bio_uninit() - which will free the integrity. We don't
> > want that to happen before passthrough gets the chance to unpin/copy-back.
>
> But yes, that messed it up.  I'm kinda curious why it didn't trip up
> during my testing of the passthrough metadata code.

Yeah, it didn't trigger any errors in my tests either. It's just that
integrity vecs
were not unpinned during completion.





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