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xen-blkfront: Advertise feature-persistent as user requested
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commit 9f5e0fe upstream.

The advertisement of the persistent grants feature (writing
'feature-persistent' to xenbus) should mean not the decision for using
the feature but only the availability of the feature.  However, commit
74a8524 ("xen-blkfront: add a parameter for disabling of persistent
grants") made a field of blkfront, which was a place for saving only the
negotiation result, to be used for yet another purpose: caching of the
'feature_persistent' parameter value.  As a result, the advertisement,
which should follow only the parameter value, becomes inconsistent.

This commit fixes the misuse of the semantic by making blkfront saves
the parameter value in a separate place and advertises the support based
on only the saved value.

Fixes: 74a8524 ("xen-blkfront: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.10.x
Suggested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220831165824.94815-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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sjp38 authored and gregkh committed Sep 8, 2022
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8 changes: 6 additions & 2 deletions drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
Expand Up @@ -212,6 +212,9 @@ struct blkfront_info
unsigned int feature_fua:1;
unsigned int feature_discard:1;
unsigned int feature_secdiscard:1;
/* Connect-time cached feature_persistent parameter */
unsigned int feature_persistent_parm:1;
/* Persistent grants feature negotiation result */
unsigned int feature_persistent:1;
unsigned int bounce:1;
unsigned int discard_granularity;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1874,7 +1877,7 @@ static int talk_to_blkback(struct xenbus_device *dev,
goto abort_transaction;
}
err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-persistent", "%u",
info->feature_persistent);
info->feature_persistent_parm);
if (err)
dev_warn(&dev->dev,
"writing persistent grants feature to xenbus");
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2307,7 +2310,8 @@ static void blkfront_gather_backend_features(struct blkfront_info *info)
if (xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend, "feature-discard", 0))
blkfront_setup_discard(info);

if (feature_persistent)
info->feature_persistent_parm = feature_persistent;
if (info->feature_persistent_parm)
info->feature_persistent =
!!xenbus_read_unsigned(info->xbdev->otherend,
"feature-persistent", 0);
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