[Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/blkback: unmap all persistent grants when frontend gets disconnected

[Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>]

blkback does not unmap persistent grants when frontend goes to Closed
state (e.g. when blkfront module is being removed). This leads to the
following in guest's dmesg:

[  343.243825] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x445 still in use!
[  343.243825] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x42a still in use!
...

When load module -> use device -> unload module sequence is performed multiple 
times
it is possible to hit BUG() condition in blkfront module:

[  343.243825] kernel BUG at drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c:954!
[  343.243825] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  343.243825] Modules linked in: xen_blkfront(-) ata_generic pata_acpi [last 
unloaded: xen_blkfront]
...
[  343.243825] Call Trace:
[  343.243825]  [<ffffffff814111ef>] ? unregister_xenbus_watch+0x16f/0x1e0
[  343.243825]  [<ffffffffa0016fbf>] blkfront_remove+0x3f/0x140 [xen_blkfront]
...
[  343.243825] RIP  [<ffffffffa0016aae>] blkif_free+0x34e/0x360 [xen_blkfront]
[  343.243825]  RSP <ffff88001eb8fdc0>

We don't need to keep these grants if we're disconnecting as frontend might 
already
forgot about them. Solve the issue by moving xen_blkbk_free_caches() call from
xen_blkif_free() to xen_blkif_disconnect().

Now we can see the following:
[  928.590893] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x587 still in use!
[  928.591861] xen:grant_table: WARNING: g.e. 0x372 still in use!
...
[  929.592146] xen:grant_table: freeing g.e. 0x587
[  929.597174] xen:grant_table: freeing g.e. 0x372
...

Backend does not keep persistent grants any more, reconnect works fine.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c 
b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
index 3a8b810..54f4089 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
@@ -270,6 +270,9 @@ static int xen_blkif_disconnect(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
                blkif->blk_rings.common.sring = NULL;
        }
 
+       /* Remove all persistent grants and the cache of ballooned pages. */
+       xen_blkbk_free_caches(blkif);
+
        return 0;
 }
 
@@ -281,9 +284,6 @@ static void xen_blkif_free(struct xen_blkif *blkif)
        xen_blkif_disconnect(blkif);
        xen_vbd_free(&blkif->vbd);
 
-       /* Remove all persistent grants and the cache of ballooned pages. */
-       xen_blkbk_free_caches(blkif);
-
        /* Make sure everything is drained before shutting down */
        BUG_ON(blkif->persistent_gnt_c != 0);
        BUG_ON(atomic_read(&blkif->persistent_gnt_in_use) != 0);
-- 
1.9.3


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