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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] xen/blkfront: don't trust the backend response data
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To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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From:   Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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Date:   Mon, 17 May 2021 16:11:05 +0200
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On 13.05.2021 12:02, Juergen Gross wrote:
> @@ -1574,10 +1580,16 @@ static irqreturn_t blkif_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&rinfo->ring_lock, flags);
>   again:
>  	rp = rinfo->ring.sring->rsp_prod;
> +	if (RING_RESPONSE_PROD_OVERFLOW(&rinfo->ring, rp)) {
> +		pr_alert("%s: illegal number of responses %u\n",
> +			 info->gd->disk_name, rp - rinfo->ring.rsp_cons);
> +		goto err;
> +	}
>  	rmb(); /* Ensure we see queued responses up to 'rp'. */

I think you want to insert after the barrier.

> @@ -1680,6 +1707,11 @@ static irqreturn_t blkif_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rinfo->ring_lock, flags);
>  
>  	return IRQ_HANDLED;
> +
> + err:
> +	info->connected = BLKIF_STATE_ERROR;
> +	pr_alert("%s disabled for further use\n", info->gd->disk_name);
> +	return IRQ_HANDLED;
>  }

Am I understanding that a suspend (and then resume) can be used to
recover from error state? If so - is this intentional? If so in turn,
would it make sense to spell this out in the description?

Jan