[Devel] [PATCH VZ10 5/5] drivers/vhost/blk: rework queue/backend setup

Vasileios Almpanis vasileios.almpanis at virtuozzo.com
Thu Aug 20 17:11:04 MSK 2026


> vhost_blk_setup() is pretty bad: silently refusing changed vq->num
> if requests are already allocated, fetching user input second time
> (double-fetch vulnerability).
> To handle this, tie request allocation to backend existence. After
> all, if there is no backend, there is no point in having requests.
> Also expand it to get rid of boilerplate drop_backend, flush,
> fput sequence in a few places.
> 
> https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-138640
Fixes: 40a5928ec730 ("drivers/vhost: vhost-blk accelerator for virtio-blk guests")
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Zhadchenko <andrey.zhadchenko at virtuozzo.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/blk.c b/drivers/vhost/blk.c
> index 070e5ce30a16..17ca135867e6 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/blk.c
> @@ -647,11 +647,14 @@ static void vhost_blk_flush(struct vhost_blk *blk)
>  	spin_unlock(&blk->flush_lock);
>  }
>  
> -static inline void vhost_blk_drop_backends(struct vhost_blk *blk)
> +static void vhost_blk_drop_backend(struct vhost_blk *blk)
>  {
>  	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq;
>  	int i;
>  
> +	if (!blk->backend)
> +		return;
> +
>  	for (i = 0; i < VHOST_BLK_VQ_MAX; i++) {
>  		vq = &blk->vqs[i].vq;
>  
> @@ -659,6 +662,45 @@ static inline void vhost_blk_drop_backends(struct vhost_blk *blk)
>  		vhost_vq_set_backend(vq, NULL);
>  		mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
>  	}
> +
> +	vhost_blk_flush(blk);
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < VHOST_BLK_VQ_MAX; i++) {
> +		kvfree(blk->vqs[i].req);
> +		blk->vqs[i].req = NULL;
> +	}
> +
> +	fput(blk->backend);
> +	blk->backend = NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static int vhost_blk_setup_vqs(struct vhost_blk *blk)
> +{
> +	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq;
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < VHOST_BLK_VQ_MAX; i++) {
> +		vq = &blk->vqs[i].vq;
> +
> +		if (!vhost_vq_is_setup(vq))
> +			continue;
> +
> +		blk->vqs[i].req = kvmalloc_array(vq->num, sizeof(struct vhost_blk_req),
> +						 GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (!blk->vqs[i].req)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +		mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
> +		vhost_vq_set_backend(vq, blk->backend);
> +		if (vhost_vq_init_access(vq)) {
> +			mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
> +			return -EFAULT;
> +		}
> +		mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
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> +
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static int vhost_blk_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
> @@ -711,16 +753,10 @@ static int vhost_blk_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  static int vhost_blk_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
>  {
>  	struct vhost_blk *blk = f->private_data;
> -	int i;
>  
> -	vhost_blk_drop_backends(blk);
> -	vhost_blk_flush(blk);
> +	vhost_blk_drop_backend(blk);
>  	vhost_dev_stop(&blk->dev);
> -	if (blk->backend)
> -		fput(blk->backend);
>  	vhost_dev_cleanup(&blk->dev);
> -	for (i = 0; i < VHOST_BLK_VQ_MAX; i++)
> -		kvfree(blk->vqs[i].req);
>  	kfree(blk->dev.vqs);
>  	kvfree(blk);
>  
> @@ -754,32 +790,19 @@ static int vhost_blk_set_features(struct vhost_blk *blk, u64 features)
>  
>  static long vhost_blk_set_backend(struct vhost_blk *blk, int fd)
>  {
> -	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq;
>  	struct file *file;
>  	struct inode *inode;
> -	int ret, i;
> +	int ret;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&blk->dev.mutex);
>  	ret = vhost_dev_check_owner(&blk->dev);
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto out_dev;
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * fd < 0 means "stop the device".  Detach the backend from every vq so
> -	 * vhost_blk_handle_guest_kick() stops fetching descriptors, drain the
> -	 * in-flight requests, and release the backing file.
> -	 */
> +	/* fd < 0 means "stop the device" */
>  	if (fd < 0) {
> -		if (!blk->backend) {
> -			ret = 0;		/* already stopped */
> -			goto out_dev;
> -		}
> -		vhost_blk_drop_backends(blk);
> -		vhost_blk_flush(blk);
> -		fput(blk->backend);
> -		blk->backend = NULL;
>  		ret = 0;
> -		goto out_dev;
> +		goto out_drop;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (blk->backend) {
> @@ -796,31 +819,21 @@ static long vhost_blk_set_backend(struct vhost_blk *blk, int fd)
>  	inode = file->f_mapping->host;
>  	if (!S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode)) {
>  		ret = -EFAULT;
> -		goto out_file;
> +		fput(file);
> +		goto out_dev;
>  	}
>  
> -	for (i = 0; i < VHOST_BLK_VQ_MAX; i++) {
> -		vq = &blk->vqs[i].vq;
> -		if (!vhost_vq_access_ok(vq)) {
> -			ret = -EFAULT;
> -			goto out_drop;
> -		}
> -
> -		mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
> -		vhost_vq_set_backend(vq, file);
> -		ret = vhost_vq_init_access(vq);
> -		mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
> -	}
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Vasileios Almpanis <vasileios.almpanis at virtuozzo.com>


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