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From: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
To: roger@xenproject.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	konrad.wilk@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	baijiaju1990@gmail.com, Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] xen/blkback: Prevent missed completion when draining I/O
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:40:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260730084000.3305702-1-hanguidong02@gmail.com> (raw)

xen_blk_drain_io() sets drain before checking inflight.
xen_blkbk_unmap_and_respond_callback() decrements inflight with
atomic_dec_and_test() before checking drain.

The pre-wait condition check was added to avoid missing a completion, but
atomic_set() is unordered. With one I/O in flight, the drain path can set
drain to 1 and read inflight as 1 before the completion decrement. The
completion path then decrements inflight to 0 but can still read drain as
0. It skips complete(), so the drain path waits until the timeout despite
no I/O remaining.

Add a full barrier between setting drain and reading inflight.
atomic_dec_and_test() already provides full ordering on the completion
side.

Fixes: 6927d92091df ("xen/blkback: Fix two races in the handling of barrier requests.")
Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
---
Found by auditing atomic operations used for synchronization.
A similar fix can be found in 6df8e84aa6b5.
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
index 7871099bc0d4..88526e349ce1 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -1021,6 +1021,13 @@ static void xen_blk_drain_io(struct xen_blkif_ring *ring)
 	struct xen_blkif *blkif = ring->blkif;
 
 	atomic_set(&blkif->drain, 1);
+	/*
+	 * Publish drain before checking inflight. Otherwise,
+	 * xen_blkbk_unmap_and_respond_callback() can decrement inflight with
+	 * atomic_dec_and_test() and still see drain == 0 after this path saw
+	 * inflight > 0, missing the completion.
+	 */
+	smp_mb();
 	do {
 		if (atomic_read(&ring->inflight) == 0)
 			break;
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-30  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-30  8:40 Gui-Dong Han [this message]
2026-07-30  8:43 ` [PATCH] xen/blkback: Prevent missed completion when draining I/O Jan Beulich
2026-07-30  9:25   ` Gui-Dong Han

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