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* [PATCH hci-8.0] block/throttle-groups: fix crash when enabling I/O limits on a busy disk #VSTOR-144549
@ 2026-09-11 11:11 Denis V. Lunev
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From: Denis V. Lunev @ 2026-09-11 11:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: svt-core; +Cc: andrey.drobyshev, den

From: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>

throttle_group_register_tgm() stores tgm->throttle_state before it takes
tg->lock, so the I/O path can see a member whose group still has NULL
tokens[] and an empty member list. A request in an iothread then reaches
throttle_group_co_io_limits_intercept(), wins tg->lock ahead of the
registering thread, and next_throttle_token() passes the NULL token to
throttle_group_next_tgm(), which dereferences it:

  throttle_group_next_tgm (tgm=0x0) at block/throttle-groups.c:185
  next_throttle_token (tgm=..., direction=THROTTLE_READ)
  throttle_group_co_io_limits_intercept (tgm=..., bytes=8192, ...)
  blk_co_do_preadv_part (blk=..., offset=..., bytes=8192, ...)
  blk_aio_read_entry (opaque=...)
  coroutine_trampoline (i0=..., i1=...)

blk_io_limits_enable() does not drain the BlockBackend, unlike its disable
counterpart, so nothing keeps requests away while the group is built. A
guest probing a disk that libvirt has just attached, at the moment the QoS
settings for it are applied, is enough to hit this.

Publish tgm->throttle_state with a release store once the member is
linked into the group and its timers exist, and read it with an acquire
load on the two unlocked I/O paths. A request that sees the new pointer
then also sees a fully built group.

Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
---
 block/block-backend.c   | 12 ++++++------
 block/throttle-groups.c |  4 +++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/block-backend.c b/block/block-backend.c
index 2cf17c0ebd4..486f77aea22 100644
--- a/block/block-backend.c
+++ b/block/block-backend.c
@@ -1360,6 +1360,7 @@ blk_co_do_preadv_part(BlockBackend *blk, int64_t offset, int64_t bytes,
                       QEMUIOVector *qiov, size_t qiov_offset,
                       BdrvRequestFlags flags)
 {
+    ThrottleGroupMember *tgm = &blk->public.throttle_group_member;
     int ret;
     BlockDriverState *bs;
     IO_CODE();
@@ -1379,9 +1380,8 @@ blk_co_do_preadv_part(BlockBackend *blk, int64_t offset, int64_t bytes,
     bdrv_inc_in_flight(bs);
 
     /* throttling disk I/O */
-    if (blk->public.throttle_group_member.throttle_state) {
-        throttle_group_co_io_limits_intercept(&blk->public.throttle_group_member,
-                bytes, THROTTLE_READ);
+    if (qatomic_load_acquire(&tgm->throttle_state)) {
+        throttle_group_co_io_limits_intercept(tgm, bytes, THROTTLE_READ);
     }
 
     ret = bdrv_co_preadv_part(blk->root, offset, bytes, qiov, qiov_offset,
@@ -1435,6 +1435,7 @@ blk_co_do_pwritev_part(BlockBackend *blk, int64_t offset, int64_t bytes,
                        QEMUIOVector *qiov, size_t qiov_offset,
                        BdrvRequestFlags flags)
 {
+    ThrottleGroupMember *tgm = &blk->public.throttle_group_member;
     int ret;
     BlockDriverState *bs;
     IO_CODE();
@@ -1453,9 +1454,8 @@ blk_co_do_pwritev_part(BlockBackend *blk, int64_t offset, int64_t bytes,
 
     bdrv_inc_in_flight(bs);
     /* throttling disk I/O */
-    if (blk->public.throttle_group_member.throttle_state) {
-        throttle_group_co_io_limits_intercept(&blk->public.throttle_group_member,
-                bytes, THROTTLE_WRITE);
+    if (qatomic_load_acquire(&tgm->throttle_state)) {
+        throttle_group_co_io_limits_intercept(tgm, bytes, THROTTLE_WRITE);
     }
 
     if (!blk->enable_write_cache) {
diff --git a/block/throttle-groups.c b/block/throttle-groups.c
index 4b1b1944c20..c84aafdc75e 100644
--- a/block/throttle-groups.c
+++ b/block/throttle-groups.c
@@ -581,7 +581,6 @@ void throttle_group_register_tgm(ThrottleGroupMember *tgm,
     ThrottleState *ts = throttle_group_incref(groupname);
     ThrottleGroup *tg = container_of(ts, ThrottleGroup, ts);
 
-    tgm->throttle_state = ts;
     tgm->aio_context = ctx;
     qatomic_set(&tgm->restart_pending, 0);
 
@@ -602,6 +601,9 @@ void throttle_group_register_tgm(ThrottleGroupMember *tgm,
                          read_timer_cb,
                          write_timer_cb,
                          tgm);
+
+    /* The I/O path reads this without tg->lock, so publish it last */
+    qatomic_store_release(&tgm->throttle_state, ts);
 }
 
 /* Unregister a ThrottleGroupMember from its group, removing it from the list,
-- 
2.53.0


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