[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] IDE: Do not flush empty drives

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

Patches one and two here are a 2.10 bandaid that avoids a crash.
Patches three and four are a more comprehensive fix as written by
Kevin in another discussion and are being posted here for the sake
of a discussion.

Patch three as written causes hangs in iotests 20, 39, 97, 98, 129,
153, 176, and 185. 124 actually segfaults.

For the purposes of 2.10, we'll likely just want patches 1 and 2
for now.

The problem in a nutshell: incrementing the in-flight counter of the
BDS from the BB layer assumes that every BB always has a BDS. That's
not true; and some devices like IDE have not in the past checked to
see if a given blk_ operation WOULD fail.

This culminates in a new regression where issuing a cache flush to a
CDROM (which is, for some reason, specification valid) will crash QEMU
due to a null dereference when attempting to atomically increment that
backend's in-flight counter.

John Snow (1):
  IDE: Do not flush empty CDROM drives

Kevin Wolf (3):
  IDE: test flush on empty CDROM
  block-backend: shift in-flight counter to BB from BDS
  block-backend: test flush op on empty backend

 block.c                    |  2 +-
 block/block-backend.c      | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 hw/ide/core.c              | 11 +++++---
 tests/Makefile.include     |  2 ++
 tests/ide-test.c           | 19 ++++++++++++++
 tests/test-block-backend.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/test-block-backend.c

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