Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: Fix device surprise removal

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:08:48PM +0200, Parav Pandit wrote:
> When the PCI device is surprise removed, requests won't complete from
> the device. These IOs are never completed and disk deletion hangs
> indefinitely.
> 
> Fix it by aborting the IOs which the device will never complete
> when the VQ is broken.
> 
> With this fix now fio completes swiftly.
> An alternative of IO timeout has been considered, however
> when the driver knows about unresponsive block device, swiftly clearing
> them enables users and upper layers to react quickly.
> 
> Verified with multiple device unplug cycles with pending IOs in virtio
> used ring and some pending with device.
> 
> In future instead of VQ broken, a more elegant method can be used. At the
> moment the patch is kept to its minimal changes given its urgency to fix
> broken kernels.
> 
> Fixes: 43bb40c5b926 ("virtio_pci: Support surprise removal of virtio pci device")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: lirongqing@baidu.com
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/virtualization/c45dd68698cd47238c55fb73ca9b4741@baidu.com/
> Co-developed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 54 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> index 2bf14a0e2815..59b49899b229 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> @@ -1562,10 +1562,64 @@ static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
>  	return err;
>  }
>  
> +static bool virtblk_cancel_request(struct request *rq, void *data)
> +{
> +	struct virtblk_req *vbr = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(rq);
> +
> +	vbr->in_hdr.status = VIRTIO_BLK_S_IOERR;
> +	if (blk_mq_request_started(rq) && !blk_mq_request_completed(rq))
> +		blk_mq_complete_request(rq);
> +
> +	return true;
> +}
> +
> +static void virtblk_cleanup_reqs(struct virtio_blk *vblk)
> +{
> +	struct virtio_blk_vq *blk_vq;
> +	struct request_queue *q;
> +	struct virtqueue *vq;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	int i;
> +
> +	vq = vblk->vqs[0].vq;
> +	if (!virtqueue_is_broken(vq))
> +		return;
> +

What if the surprise happens after the above check?


Thanks,
Ming