xen-blkback: fix persistent grants negotiation
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 aac8a70d ("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: aac8a70d ("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>
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