* [PATCH] ublk: refuse to go live after an io command was canceled
[not found] <20261001125422.1364260-1-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
@ 2026-10-05 16:23 ` Josef Bacik
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From: Josef Bacik @ 2026-10-05 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ming Lei, Jens Axboe
Cc: Caleb Sander Mateos, linux-block, linux-kernel, linux-doc
Since commit "ublk: keep a canceled FETCH round canceling until the
server is gone", a device whose FETCH round saw a cancel keeps its
queues canceling until the server goes away, but START_DEV and
END_USER_RECOVERY still bring it up. Without UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY, or
with UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY_FAIL_IO, every request of the new disk fails.
With UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY, requests are requeued and never kicked: after
START_DEV the partition scan hangs under disk->open_mutex, and after
END_USER_RECOVERY every read parks while the command returned 0. The
server cannot fetch the canceled commands again, so the device can't
serve I/O until it restarts anyway.
Return -ENODEV from START_DEV and END_USER_RECOVERY while ub->canceling
is set. In ublk_ctrl_start_dev() check it and publish ub->ub_disk in one
cancel_mutex section, and have ublk_start_cancel() read the disk in its
cancel_mutex section. Today ublk_start_cancel() samples the disk before
taking the mutex, so a server dying during its own START_DEV can mark
the queues without quiescing a disk START_DEV published in between, with
its first I/O past the canceling check. Now either START_DEV sees the
cancel, or the cancel sees the disk and quiesces it before marking. The
END_USER_RECOVERY check is best effort: the disk exists there, and a
cancel after it is the ordinary death of the new server, which
ublk_start_cancel() handles by quiescing and marking.
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
---
This applies on top of Ming's "[PATCH 0/8] ublk: don't dispatch to
canceled io commands" and needs patch 1 of it for ub->canceling to stay
set for the whole FETCH round. generic_18 still passes with it.
Documentation/block/ublk.rst | 10 ++++++++--
drivers/block/ublk_drv.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/block/ublk.rst b/Documentation/block/ublk.rst
index 28300fee22bf..b7875a3cf3fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/ublk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/block/ublk.rst
@@ -118,7 +118,11 @@ managing and controlling ublk devices with help of several control commands:
After the server prepares userspace resources (such as creating I/O handler
threads & io_uring for handling ublk IO), this command is sent to the
driver for allocating & exposing ``/dev/ublkb*``. Parameters set via
- ``UBLK_CMD_SET_PARAMS`` are applied for creating the device.
+ ``UBLK_CMD_SET_PARAMS`` are applied for creating the device. The command
+ fails with ``-ENODEV`` if an I/O command fetched by the current server
+ was canceled, because its io_uring is gone. The server can't fetch it
+ again, and the device can be started again once the server has closed
+ ``/dev/ublkc*``.
- ``UBLK_CMD_STOP_DEV``
@@ -195,7 +199,9 @@ managing and controlling ublk devices with help of several control commands:
command is accepted after ublk device is quiesced and a new process has
opened ``/dev/ublkc*`` and get all ublk queues be ready. When this command
returns, ublk device is unquiesced and new I/O requests are passed to the
- new process.
+ new process. It fails with ``-ENODEV`` if an I/O command of the new
+ process was canceled already. The recovery can be started over once the
+ new process has closed ``/dev/ublkc*``.
- user recovery feature description
diff --git a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
index f57d544c1da2..39eb7775a351 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
@@ -2759,9 +2759,11 @@ static void ublk_abort_queue(struct ublk_device *ub, struct ublk_queue *ubq)
static void ublk_start_cancel(struct ublk_device *ub)
{
- struct gendisk *disk = ublk_get_disk(ub);
+ struct gendisk *disk;
+ /* sync with ublk_ctrl_start_dev() publishing the disk */
mutex_lock(&ub->cancel_mutex);
+ disk = ublk_get_disk(ub);
if (ub->canceling)
goto out;
@@ -4575,6 +4577,7 @@ static int ublk_ctrl_start_dev(struct ublk_device *ub,
.dma_alignment = 3,
};
struct gendisk *disk;
+ bool canceled;
int ret = -EINVAL;
if (ublksrv_pid <= 0)
@@ -4665,8 +4668,24 @@ static int ublk_ctrl_start_dev(struct ublk_device *ub,
disk->fops = &ub_fops;
disk->private_data = ub;
+ /*
+ * A command of this FETCH round was canceled and can't be fetched
+ * again, don't bring up a disk over it. Check and publish the disk
+ * in one cancel_mutex section: either this sees ub->canceling, or
+ * ublk_start_cancel() sees the disk and quiesces it before marking
+ * the queues.
+ */
+ mutex_lock(&ub->cancel_mutex);
+ canceled = ub->canceling;
+ if (!canceled)
+ ub->ub_disk = disk;
+ mutex_unlock(&ub->cancel_mutex);
+ if (canceled) {
+ put_disk(disk);
+ ret = -ENODEV;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
ub->dev_info.ublksrv_pid = ub->ublksrv_tgid;
- ub->ub_disk = disk;
ublk_apply_params(ub);
@@ -5238,6 +5257,7 @@ static int ublk_ctrl_end_recovery(struct ublk_device *ub,
const struct ublksrv_ctrl_cmd *header)
{
int ublksrv_pid = (int)header->data[0];
+ bool canceled;
int ret = -EINVAL;
pr_devel("%s: Waiting for all FETCH_REQs, dev id %d...\n", __func__,
@@ -5261,6 +5281,20 @@ static int ublk_ctrl_end_recovery(struct ublk_device *ub,
ret = -EBUSY;
goto out_unlock;
}
+
+ /*
+ * As in ublk_ctrl_start_dev(), a canceled command can't be fetched
+ * again. Best effort: the disk exists here, and a cancel after this
+ * check is the ordinary death of the new server, which
+ * ublk_start_cancel() handles by quiescing and marking.
+ */
+ mutex_lock(&ub->cancel_mutex);
+ canceled = ub->canceling;
+ mutex_unlock(&ub->cancel_mutex);
+ if (canceled) {
+ ret = -ENODEV;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
ub->dev_info.ublksrv_pid = ub->ublksrv_tgid;
ub->dev_info.state = UBLK_S_DEV_LIVE;
pr_devel("%s: new ublksrv_pid %d, dev id %d\n",
--
2.55.0
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