[Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1] drivers/vhost/blk: reject a head that is still in flight

Andrey Zhadchenko andrey.zhadchenko at virtuozzo.com
Thu Oct 29 14:03:35 MSK 2026


LGTM
Reviewed-by: Andrey Zhadchenko <andrey.zhadchenko at virtuozzo.com>

On 10/28/26 09:14, Alexander Ivanov wrote:
> vhost_blk_req_handle() takes the request slot by head and overwrites it
> without checking that it is free. A guest that puts a head into the
> avail ring again while its request is in flight makes the slot get
> submitted twice: req_inflight is raised for each submission, but the
> completion path sees one slot and calls forget_request() once.
> req_inflight never drops to zero, and vhost_blk_flush() on backend drop
> leaves QEMU in D state forever with the block device pinned. The second
> submission also overwrites bio[], bio_nr and the iovecs of bios that
> are still in flight.
> 
> Mark a slot in flight from bio submission until its completion is
> handled, both under vq->mutex, and fail the request if the guest posts
> an in-flight head. The caller reports the error on the vq error eventfd
> and stops processing the ring. Allocate the slots zeroed so the flag
> starts clear.
> 
> https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-152123
> Fixes: d8722ff88c5d ("drivers/vhost: vhost-blk accelerator for virtio-blk guests")
> Feature: vhost-blk: in-kernel accelerator for virtio-blk guests
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Ivanov <alexander.ivanov at virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>   drivers/vhost/blk.c | 10 ++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/blk.c b/drivers/vhost/blk.c
> index b170439a1806..668986449373 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/blk.c
> @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ struct vhost_blk_req {
>   	u16 head;
>   	size_t len;
>   	int bio_err;
> +	bool inflight;
>   
>   	struct vhost_blk *blk;
>   	struct vhost_blk_vq *blk_vq;
> @@ -434,6 +435,7 @@ static int vhost_blk_req_submit(struct vhost_blk_req *req)
>   	if (ret < 0)
>   		goto out;
>   
> +	req->inflight = true;
>   	vhost_blk_bio_send(req);
>   	return ret;
>   
> @@ -457,6 +459,9 @@ static int vhost_blk_req_handle(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
>   	u8 status;
>   
>   	req		= &blk_vq->req[head];
> +	if (unlikely(req->inflight))
> +		return -EBUSY;
> +
>   	req->blk_vq	= blk_vq;
>   	req->head	= head;
>   	req->blk	= blk;
> @@ -628,6 +633,7 @@ static void vhost_blk_handle_host_kick(struct vhost_work *work)
>   			added = true;
>   		}
>   
> +		req->inflight = false;
>   		forget_request(req);
>   	}
>   
> @@ -703,8 +709,8 @@ static int vhost_blk_setup_vqs(struct vhost_blk *blk)
>   		if (!vhost_vq_is_setup(vq))
>   			continue;
>   
> -		blk->vqs[i].req = kvmalloc_array(vq->num, sizeof(struct vhost_blk_req),
> -						 GFP_KERNEL);
> +		blk->vqs[i].req = kvcalloc(vq->num, sizeof(struct vhost_blk_req),
> +					   GFP_KERNEL);
>   		if (!blk->vqs[i].req)
>   			return -ENOMEM;
>   



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