xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing

commit fed1755b118147721f2c87b37b9d66e62c39b668 upstream.

If handling logics of watch events are slower than the events enqueue
logic and the events can be created from the guests, the guests could
trigger memory pressure by intensively inducing the events, because it
will create a huge number of pending events that exhausting the memory.

Fortunately, some watch events could be ignored, depending on its
handler callback.  For example, if the callback has interest in only one
single path, the watch wouldn't want multiple pending events.  Or, some
watches could ignore events to same path.

To let such watches to volutarily help avoiding the memory pressure
situation, this commit introduces new watch callback, 'will_handle'.  If
it is not NULL, it will be called for each new event just before
enqueuing it.  Then, if the callback returns false, the event will be
discarded.  No watch is using the callback for now, though.

This is part of XSA-349

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Reported-by: Michael Kurth <mku@amazon.de>
Reported-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

4 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
index f533b7372d59..caa8add9e3f1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
@@ -713,12 +713,14 @@ static int xen_register_credit_watch(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	snprintf(node, maxlen, "%s/rate", dev->nodename);
 	vif->credit_watch.node = node;
+	vif->credit_watch.will_handle = NULL;
 	vif->credit_watch.callback = xen_net_rate_changed;
 	err = register_xenbus_watch(&vif->credit_watch);
 	if (err) {
 		pr_err("Failed to set watcher %s\n", vif->credit_watch.node);
 		kfree(node);
 		vif->credit_watch.node = NULL;
+		vif->credit_watch.will_handle = NULL;
 		vif->credit_watch.callback = NULL;
 	}
 	return err;
@@ -765,6 +767,7 @@ static int xen_register_mcast_ctrl_watch(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 	snprintf(node, maxlen, "%s/request-multicast-control",
 		 dev->otherend);
 	vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.node = node;
+	vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.will_handle = NULL;
 	vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.callback = xen_mcast_ctrl_changed;
 	err = register_xenbus_watch(&vif->mcast_ctrl_watch);
 	if (err) {
@@ -772,6 +775,7 @@ static int xen_register_mcast_ctrl_watch(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 		       vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.node);
 		kfree(node);
 		vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.node = NULL;
+		vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.will_handle = NULL;
 		vif->mcast_ctrl_watch.callback = NULL;
 	}
 	return err;
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c
index f38bdaea0ef1..160cec90b190 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ int xenbus_watch_path(struct xenbus_device *dev, const char *path,
 	int err;
 
 	watch->node = path;
+	watch->will_handle = NULL;
 	watch->callback = callback;
 
 	err = register_xenbus_watch(watch);
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
index 3a06eb699f33..e8bdbd0a1e26 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
@@ -705,7 +705,10 @@ int xs_watch_msg(struct xs_watch_event *event)
 
 	spin_lock(&watches_lock);
 	event->handle = find_watch(event->token);
-	if (event->handle != NULL) {
+	if (event->handle != NULL &&
+			(!event->handle->will_handle ||
+			 event->handle->will_handle(event->handle,
+				 event->path, event->token))) {
 		spin_lock(&watch_events_lock);
 		list_add_tail(&event->list, &watch_events);
 		wake_up(&watch_events_waitq);
diff --git a/include/xen/xenbus.h b/include/xen/xenbus.h
index 869c816d5f8c..55f543fe0bd8 100644
--- a/include/xen/xenbus.h
+++ b/include/xen/xenbus.h
@@ -59,6 +59,13 @@ struct xenbus_watch
 	/* Path being watched. */
 	const char *node;
 
+	/*
+	 * Called just before enqueing new event while a spinlock is held.
+	 * The event will be discarded if this callback returns false.
+	 */
+	bool (*will_handle)(struct xenbus_watch *,
+			      const char *path, const char *token);
+
 	/* Callback (executed in a process context with no locks held). */
 	void (*callback)(struct xenbus_watch *,
 			 const char *path, const char *token);