Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] migration: avoid segmentfault when take a snapshot of a VM which being migrated

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Jia Lina (jialina01@baidu.com) wrote:
> During an active background migration, snapshot will trigger a
> segmentfault. As snapshot clears the "current_migration" struct
> and updates "to_dst_file" before it finds out that there is a
> migration task, Migration accesses the null pointer in
> "current_migration" struct and qemu crashes eventually.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia Lina <jialina01@baidu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chai Wen <chaiwen@baidu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <zhangyu31@baidu.com>

Queued

> ---
>  migration/migration.c |  2 +-
>  migration/migration.h |  2 ++
>  migration/savevm.c    | 19 +++++++++++--------
>  3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
> index d6ae879dc8..b5e71c7bfc 100644
> --- a/migration/migration.c
> +++ b/migration/migration.c
> @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ MigrationParameters *qmp_query_migrate_parameters(Error **errp)
>   * Return true if we're already in the middle of a migration
>   * (i.e. any of the active or setup states)
>   */
> -static bool migration_is_setup_or_active(int state)
> +bool migration_is_setup_or_active(int state)
>  {
>      switch (state) {
>      case MIGRATION_STATUS_ACTIVE:
> diff --git a/migration/migration.h b/migration/migration.h
> index f7813f8261..e413d4d8b6 100644
> --- a/migration/migration.h
> +++ b/migration/migration.h
> @@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ void migrate_fd_error(MigrationState *s, const Error *error);
>  
>  void migrate_fd_connect(MigrationState *s, Error *error_in);
>  
> +bool migration_is_setup_or_active(int state);
> +
>  void migrate_init(MigrationState *s);
>  bool migration_is_blocked(Error **errp);
>  /* True if outgoing migration has entered postcopy phase */
> diff --git a/migration/savevm.c b/migration/savevm.c
> index 2d10e45582..eeade8cb92 100644
> --- a/migration/savevm.c
> +++ b/migration/savevm.c
> @@ -1319,21 +1319,25 @@ static int qemu_savevm_state(QEMUFile *f, Error **errp)
>      MigrationState *ms = migrate_get_current();
>      MigrationStatus status;
>  
> -    migrate_init(ms);
> -
> -    ms->to_dst_file = f;
> +    if (migration_is_setup_or_active(ms->state) ||
> +        ms->state == MIGRATION_STATUS_CANCELLING ||
> +        ms->state == MIGRATION_STATUS_COLO) {
> +        error_setg(errp, QERR_MIGRATION_ACTIVE);
> +        return -EINVAL;
> +    }
>  
>      if (migration_is_blocked(errp)) {
> -        ret = -EINVAL;
> -        goto done;
> +        return -EINVAL;
>      }
>  
>      if (migrate_use_block()) {
>          error_setg(errp, "Block migration and snapshots are incompatible");
> -        ret = -EINVAL;
> -        goto done;
> +        return -EINVAL;
>      }
>  
> +    migrate_init(ms);
> +    ms->to_dst_file = f;
> +
>      qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread();
>      qemu_savevm_state_header(f);
>      qemu_savevm_state_setup(f);
> @@ -1355,7 +1359,6 @@ static int qemu_savevm_state(QEMUFile *f, Error **errp)
>          error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Error while writing VM state");
>      }
>  
> -done:
>      if (ret != 0) {
>          status = MIGRATION_STATUS_FAILED;
>      } else {
> -- 
> 2.13.2.windows.1
> 
> 
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK