Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH bugfix] snapshot: add bdrv_drain_all() to bdrv_snapshot_delete() to avoid concurrency problem

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 10/21/2014 10:38 AM, Zhang Haoyu wrote:
> If there are still pending i/o while deleting snapshot,
> because deleting snapshot is done in non-coroutine context, and
> the pending i/o read/write (bdrv_co_do_rw) is done in coroutine context,
> so it's possible to cause concurrency problem between above two operations.
> Add bdrv_drain_all() to bdrv_snapshot_delete() to avoid this problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Haoyu <zhanghy@sangfor.com>
> ---
>   block/snapshot.c | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/block/snapshot.c b/block/snapshot.c
> index 85c52ff..ebc386a 100644
> --- a/block/snapshot.c
> +++ b/block/snapshot.c
> @@ -236,6 +236,10 @@ int bdrv_snapshot_delete(BlockDriverState *bs,
>           error_setg(errp, "snapshot_id and name are both NULL");
>           return -EINVAL;
>       }
> +
> +    /* drain all pending i/o before deleting snapshot */
> +    bdrv_drain_all();
> +
>       if (drv->bdrv_snapshot_delete) {
>           return drv->bdrv_snapshot_delete(bs, snapshot_id, name, errp);
>       }
>

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>