[Devel] [PATCH VZ10 v2 3/7] drivers/vhost/blk: improve request re-processing

Andrey Zhadchenko andrey.zhadchenko at virtuozzo.com
Fri Jun 19 16:33:09 MSK 2026


Handle failed request processing with extra care:
 - If we got ENOMEM or EAGAIN, reverse vq head with
vhost_discard_vq_desc() and re-queue this callback. ENOMEM isn't
that critical, as we always allocate the memory with GFP_KERNEL
so it can reclaim or sleep anyway. But with EAGAIN we should
re-enter the function to properly check vq->backend.
 - On any other error, signal error and wait for next kick just
like vhost-net or vhost-scsi. After all, we can't do anything with
faulty guest request anyway.

https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-134034
Signed-off-by: Andrey Zhadchenko <andrey.zhadchenko at virtuozzo.com>
---

v2:
 - drop one missed vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
 - change EGAIN and ENOMEM behaviour and expand commit message
with the reasoning

 drivers/vhost/blk.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/blk.c b/drivers/vhost/blk.c
index 7e33a4f30165d..6a1a2bab3bed8 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/blk.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/blk.c
@@ -540,7 +540,6 @@ static void vhost_blk_handle_guest_kick(struct vhost_work *work)
 		ret = move_iovec(vq->iov, hdr_iovec, sizeof(hdr), in + out, ARRAY_SIZE(hdr_iovec));
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			vhostblk_vq_err(blk, vq, "virtio_blk_hdr (head %d) is too split!", head);
-			vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
 			break;
 		}
 
@@ -549,12 +548,17 @@ static void vhost_blk_handle_guest_kick(struct vhost_work *work)
 		if (ret != sizeof(hdr)) {
 			vhostblk_vq_err(blk, vq, "Failed to get read header (head %d): got %d, expected %ld!\n",
 					head, ret, sizeof(hdr));
-			vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
 			break;
 		}
 
-		if (vhost_blk_req_handle(vq, &hdr, head, out + in) < 0) {
+		ret = vhost_blk_req_handle(vq, &hdr, head, out + in);
+		if (ret == -EAGAIN || ret == -ENOMEM) {
 			vhost_discard_vq_desc(vq, 1);
+			vhost_poll_queue(&vq->poll);
+			break;
+		} else if (ret < 0) {
+			vhostblk_vq_err(blk, vq, "Failed to process guest request (head %d) with %d",
+					head, ret);
 			break;
 		}
 
-- 
2.43.5



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