Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] fix qmp-cont vs migration-finish race-crash

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

* Thomas Huth (thuth@redhat.com) wrote:
> On 24/01/2019 13.25, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > It's a simple fix for problems reported in "Aborts in iotest 169"
> > by Max:
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-01/msg05907.html
> > 
> > In thread Kevin described that a problem itself is bigger and needs
> > more effort:
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-01/msg06136.html
> > 
> > So, we may continue discussion in "Aborts in iotest 169", and in
> > parallel apply these patches at least as a temporary fix.
> > 
> > The problem of this fix is that we finally have a bit weird interface:
> > 
> > User gets event MIGRATION_COMPLETED, and after it he can get error
> > message "Migration is not finalized yet". 
> > 
> > But it is better than crash, anyway.
> > 
> > Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy (2):
> >   qmp: forbid qmp_cont in RUN_STATE_FINISH_MIGRATE
> >   iotest: fix 169: do not run qmp_cont in RUN_STATE_FINISH_MIGRATE
> 
> What happened to these two patches? As far as I can see, they've never
> got applied? Has another fix for 169 included instead?

Hmm not sure; they've slipped between the maintainers if not.
1/2 is a qmp.c so while it fixes a migration corner case it's probably
armbru that should take it.

Dave

>  Thomas
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