[PATCH] xen-hvm: Avoid livelock while handling buffered ioreqs

[Ross Lagerwall]

A malicious or buggy guest may generated buffered ioreqs faster than
QEMU can process them in handle_buffered_iopage(). The result is a
livelock - QEMU continuously processes ioreqs on the main thread without
iterating through the main loop which prevents handling other events,
processing timers, etc. Without QEMU handling other events, it often
results in the guest becoming unsable and makes it difficult to stop the
source of buffered ioreqs.

To avoid this, if we process a full page of buffered ioreqs, stop and
reschedule an immediate timer to continue processing them. This lets
QEMU go back to the main loop and catch up.

Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerw...@citrix.com>
---
 hw/xen/xen-hvm-common.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/xen/xen-hvm-common.c b/hw/xen/xen-hvm-common.c
index 1627da739822..1116b3978938 100644
--- a/hw/xen/xen-hvm-common.c
+++ b/hw/xen/xen-hvm-common.c
@@ -463,11 +463,11 @@ static void handle_ioreq(XenIOState *state, ioreq_t *req)
     }
 }
 
-static bool handle_buffered_iopage(XenIOState *state)
+static unsigned int handle_buffered_iopage(XenIOState *state)
 {
     buffered_iopage_t *buf_page = state->buffered_io_page;
     buf_ioreq_t *buf_req = NULL;
-    bool handled_ioreq = false;
+    unsigned int handled = 0;
     ioreq_t req;
     int qw;
 
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ static bool handle_buffered_iopage(XenIOState *state)
     req.count = 1;
     req.dir = IOREQ_WRITE;
 
-    for (;;) {
+    do {
         uint32_t rdptr = buf_page->read_pointer, wrptr;
 
         xen_rmb();
@@ -521,22 +521,30 @@ static bool handle_buffered_iopage(XenIOState *state)
         assert(!req.data_is_ptr);
 
         qatomic_add(&buf_page->read_pointer, qw + 1);
-        handled_ioreq = true;
-    }
+        handled += qw + 1;
+    } while (handled < IOREQ_BUFFER_SLOT_NUM);
 
-    return handled_ioreq;
+    return handled;
 }
 
 static void handle_buffered_io(void *opaque)
 {
+    unsigned int handled;
     XenIOState *state = opaque;
 
-    if (handle_buffered_iopage(state)) {
+    handled = handle_buffered_iopage(state);
+    if (handled >= IOREQ_BUFFER_SLOT_NUM) {
+        /* We handled a full page of ioreqs. Schedule a timer to continue
+         * processing while giving other stuff a chance to run.
+         */
         timer_mod(state->buffered_io_timer,
-                BUFFER_IO_MAX_DELAY + qemu_clock_get_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME));
-    } else {
+                qemu_clock_get_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME));
+    } else if (handled == 0) {
         timer_del(state->buffered_io_timer);
         qemu_xen_evtchn_unmask(state->xce_handle, state->bufioreq_local_port);
+    } else {
+        timer_mod(state->buffered_io_timer,
+                BUFFER_IO_MAX_DELAY + qemu_clock_get_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME));
     }
 }
 
-- 
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