This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xen-blkback: fix persistent grants negotiation to the 5.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: xen-blkback-fix-persistent-grants-negotiation.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From fc9be616bb8f3ed9cf560308f86904f5c06be205 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 22:51:06 +0000 Subject: xen-blkback: fix persistent grants negotiation From: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.10.x Signed-off-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220715225108.193398-2-sj@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c @@ -157,6 +157,11 @@ static int xen_blkif_alloc_rings(struct return 0; } +/* Enable the persistent grants feature. */ +static bool feature_persistent = true; +module_param(feature_persistent, bool, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(feature_persistent, "Enables the persistent grants feature"); + static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc(domid_t domid) { struct xen_blkif *blkif; @@ -181,6 +186,8 @@ static struct xen_blkif *xen_blkif_alloc __module_get(THIS_MODULE); INIT_WORK(&blkif->free_work, xen_blkif_deferred_free); + blkif->vbd.feature_gnt_persistent = feature_persistent; + return blkif; } @@ -472,12 +479,6 @@ static void xen_vbd_free(struct xen_vbd vbd->bdev = NULL; } -/* Enable the persistent grants feature. */ -static bool feature_persistent = true; -module_param(feature_persistent, bool, 0644); -MODULE_PARM_DESC(feature_persistent, - "Enables the persistent grants feature"); - static int xen_vbd_create(struct xen_blkif *blkif, blkif_vdev_t handle, unsigned major, unsigned minor, int readonly, int cdrom) @@ -523,8 +524,6 @@ static int xen_vbd_create(struct xen_blk if (q && blk_queue_secure_erase(q)) vbd->discard_secure = true; - vbd->feature_gnt_persistent = feature_persistent; - pr_debug("Successful creation of handle=%04x (dom=%u)\n", handle, blkif->domid); return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sj@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.18/xen-blkback-fix-persistent-grants-negotiation.patch queue-5.18/xen-blkfront-apply-feature_persistent-parameter-when-connect.patch queue-5.18/xen-blkback-apply-feature_persistent-parameter-when-connect.patch queue-5.18/mm-damon-reclaim-fix-potential-memory-leak-in-damon_.patch