[Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1] drivers/vhost/blk: fail guest writes to a read-only backend
Alexander Ivanov
alexander.ivanov at virtuozzo.com
Wed Oct 28 12:35:36 MSK 2026
When a disk is attached read-only, QEMU opens the backing block device
O_RDONLY and advertises VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO. vhost_blk_set_backend() checks
only that the fd is a block device, and requests are submitted as bios
straight to the bdev, so a guest that ignores VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO and sends
VIRTIO_BLK_T_OUT gets VIRTIO_BLK_S_OK and modifies the disk.
Complete VIRTIO_BLK_T_OUT with VIRTIO_BLK_S_IOERR when the backend file
lacks FMODE_WRITE or the bdev itself is read-only, as the userspace
virtio-blk device does. The bdev is checked per request since it can be
switched read-only at runtime. Flush stays allowed: it does not modify
data.
Fixes: d8722ff88c5d ("drivers/vhost: vhost-blk accelerator for virtio-blk guests")
https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-152127
Feature: vhost-blk: in-kernel accelerator for virtio-blk guests
Signed-off-by: Alexander Ivanov <alexander.ivanov at virtuozzo.com>
---
drivers/vhost/blk.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/blk.c b/drivers/vhost/blk.c
index b170439a1806..11ded3214c45 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/blk.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/blk.c
@@ -443,6 +443,12 @@ static int vhost_blk_req_submit(struct vhost_blk_req *req)
return ret;
}
+static bool vhost_blk_backend_ro(struct file *f)
+{
+ return !(f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) ||
+ bdev_read_only(I_BDEV(f->f_mapping->host));
+}
+
static int vhost_blk_req_handle(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
struct virtio_blk_outhdr *hdr,
u16 head, u16 out, u16 in)
@@ -480,6 +486,15 @@ static int vhost_blk_req_handle(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
switch (hdr->type) {
case VIRTIO_BLK_T_OUT:
+ if (vhost_blk_backend_ro(vhost_vq_get_backend(vq))) {
+ status = VIRTIO_BLK_S_IOERR;
+ ret = vhost_blk_set_status(req, status);
+ if (ret)
+ break;
+ vhost_add_used_and_signal(&blk->dev, vq, head,
+ sizeof(status));
+ break;
+ }
req->bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE;
ret = vhost_blk_req_submit(req);
break;
--
2.53.0
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