[pve-devel] [PATCH qemu] add patch to avoid potential deadlock with trim for IDE/SATA and draining

Fiona Ebner f.ebner at proxmox.com
Wed Mar 8 12:51:05 CET 2023


In particular, the deadlock can occur, together with unlucky timing
between the QEMU threads, when the guest is issuing trim requests
during the start of a backup operation.

Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
---
 ...ial-deadlock-when-draining-during-tr.patch | 78 +++++++++++++++++++
 debian/patches/series                         |  1 +
 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 debian/patches/extra/0010-ide-avoid-potential-deadlock-when-draining-during-tr.patch

diff --git a/debian/patches/extra/0010-ide-avoid-potential-deadlock-when-draining-during-tr.patch b/debian/patches/extra/0010-ide-avoid-potential-deadlock-when-draining-during-tr.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77d7eee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/extra/0010-ide-avoid-potential-deadlock-when-draining-during-tr.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
+Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 15:03:02 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] ide: avoid potential deadlock when draining during trim
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+The deadlock can happen as follows:
+1. ide_issue_trim is called, and increments the in_flight counter.
+2. ide_issue_trim_cb calls blk_aio_pdiscard.
+3. Somebody else starts draining (e.g. backup to insert the cbw node).
+4. ide_issue_trim_cb is called as the completion callback for
+   blk_aio_pdiscard.
+5. ide_issue_trim_cb issues yet another blk_aio_pdiscard request.
+6. The request is added to the wait queue via blk_wait_while_drained,
+   because draining has been started.
+7. Nobody ever decrements the in_flight counter and draining can't
+   finish. This would be done by ide_trim_bh_cb, which is called after
+   ide_issue_trim_cb has issued its last request, but
+   ide_issue_trim_cb is not called anymore, because it's the
+   completion callback of blk_aio_pdiscard, which waits on draining.
+
+Quoting Hanna Czenczek:
+> The point of 7e5cdb345f was that we need any in-flight count to
+> accompany a set s->bus->dma->aiocb. While blk_aio_pdiscard() is
+> happening, we don’t necessarily need another count. But we do need
+> it while there is no blk_aio_pdiscard().
+> ide_issue_trim_cb() returns in two cases (and, recursively through
+> its callers, leaves s->bus->dma->aiocb set):
+> 1. After calling blk_aio_pdiscard(), which will keep an in-flight
+>    count,
+> 2. After calling replay_bh_schedule_event() (i.e.
+>    qemu_bh_schedule()), which does not keep an in-flight count.
+
+Thus, even after moving the blk_inc_in_flight to above the
+replay_bh_schedule_event call, the invariant "ide_issue_trim_cb
+returns with an accompanying in-flight count" is still satisfied.
+
+Fixes: 7e5cdb345f ("ide: Increment BB in-flight counter for TRIM BH")
+Suggested-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz at redhat.com>
+Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
+---
+ hw/ide/core.c | 7 +++----
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/hw/ide/core.c b/hw/ide/core.c
+index 39afdc0006..6474522bc9 100644
+--- a/hw/ide/core.c
++++ b/hw/ide/core.c
+@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static void ide_trim_bh_cb(void *opaque)
+     iocb->bh = NULL;
+     qemu_aio_unref(iocb);
+ 
+-    /* Paired with an increment in ide_issue_trim() */
++    /* Paired with an increment in ide_issue_trim_cb() */
+     blk_dec_in_flight(blk);
+ }
+ 
+@@ -503,6 +503,8 @@ static void ide_issue_trim_cb(void *opaque, int ret)
+ done:
+     iocb->aiocb = NULL;
+     if (iocb->bh) {
++        /* Paired with a decrement in ide_trim_bh_cb() */
++        blk_inc_in_flight(s->blk);
+         replay_bh_schedule_event(iocb->bh);
+     }
+ }
+@@ -514,9 +516,6 @@ BlockAIOCB *ide_issue_trim(
+     IDEState *s = opaque;
+     TrimAIOCB *iocb;
+ 
+-    /* Paired with a decrement in ide_trim_bh_cb() */
+-    blk_inc_in_flight(s->blk);
+-
+     iocb = blk_aio_get(&trim_aiocb_info, s->blk, cb, cb_opaque);
+     iocb->s = s;
+     iocb->bh = qemu_bh_new(ide_trim_bh_cb, iocb);
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 7a85c63..e4c661b 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ extra/0006-virtio-rng-pci-fix-migration-compat-for-vectors.patch
 extra/0007-block-fix-detect-zeroes-with-BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF.patch
 extra/0008-memory-prevent-dma-reentracy-issues.patch
 extra/0009-block-iscsi-fix-double-free-on-BUSY-or-similar-statu.patch
+extra/0010-ide-avoid-potential-deadlock-when-draining-during-tr.patch
 bitmap-mirror/0001-drive-mirror-add-support-for-sync-bitmap-mode-never.patch
 bitmap-mirror/0002-drive-mirror-add-support-for-conditional-and-always-.patch
 bitmap-mirror/0003-mirror-add-check-for-bitmap-mode-without-bitmap.patch
-- 
2.30.2






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