[PATCH 5.10 696/717] xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-12-28T14:33:14Z

From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>

commit fed1755b118147721f2c87b37b9d66e62c39b668 upstream.

If handling logics of watch events are slower than the events enqueue
logic and the events can be created from the guests, the guests could
trigger memory pressure by intensively inducing the events, because it
will create a huge number of pending events that exhausting the memory.

Fortunately, some watch events could be ignored, depending on its
handler callback. For example, if the callback has interest in only one
single path, the watch wouldn't want multiple pending events. Or, some
watches could ignore events to same path.

To let such watches to volutarily help avoiding the memory pressure
situation, this commit introduces new watch callback, 'will_handle'. If
it is not NULL, it will be called for each new event just before
enqueuing it. Then, if the callback returns false, the event will be
discarded. No watch is using the callback for now, though.

This is part of XSA-349

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Reported-by: Michael Kurth <mku@amazon.de>
Reported-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c | 4 ++++
drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c | 1 +
drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c | 5 ++++-
include/xen/xenbus.h | 7 +++++++
4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
@@ -557,12 +557,14 @@ static int xen_register_credit_watch(str
return -ENOMEM;
snprintf(node, maxlen, "%s/rate", dev->nodename);
vif->credit_watch.node = node;
+ vif->credit_watch.will_handle = NULL;
vif->credit_watch.callback = xen_net_rate_changed;
err = register_xenbus_watch(&vif->credit_watch);
if (err) {
pr_err("Failed to set watcher %s\n", vif->credit_watch.node);
kfree(node);
vif->credit_watch.node = NULL;
+ vif->credit_watch.will_handle = NULL;
vif->credit_watch.callback = NULL;
}
return err;
@@ -609,6 +611,7 @@ static int xen_register_mcast_ctrl_watch
snprintf(node, maxlen, "%s/request-multicast-control",
dev->otherend);
vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.node = node;
+ vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.will_handle = NULL;
vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.callback = xen_mcast_ctrl_changed;
err = register_xenbus_watch(&vif->mcast_ctrl_watch);
if (err) {
@@ -616,6 +619,7 @@ static int xen_register_mcast_ctrl_watch
vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.node);
kfree(node);
vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.node = NULL;
+ vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.will_handle = NULL;
vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.callback = NULL;
}
return err;
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ int xenbus_watch_path(struct xenbus_devi
int err;

watch->node = path;
+ watch->will_handle = NULL;
watch->callback = callback;

err = register_xenbus_watch(watch);
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
@@ -705,7 +705,10 @@ int xs_watch_msg(struct xs_watch_event *

spin_lock(&watches_lock);
event->handle = find_watch(event->token);
- if (event->handle != NULL) {
+ if (event->handle != NULL &&
+ (!event->handle->will_handle ||
+ event->handle->will_handle(event->handle,
+ event->path, event->token))) {
spin_lock(&watch_events_lock);
list_add_tail(&event->list, &watch_events);
wake_up(&watch_events_waitq);
--- a/include/xen/xenbus.h
+++ b/include/xen/xenbus.h
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ struct xenbus_watch
/* Path being watched. */
const char *node;

+ /*
+ * Called just before enqueing new event while a spinlock is held.
+ * The event will be discarded if this callback returns false.
+ */
+ bool (*will_handle)(struct xenbus_watch *,
+ const char *path, const char *token);
+
/* Callback (executed in a process context with no locks held). */
void (*callback)(struct xenbus_watch *,
const char *path, const char *token);