[Qemu-devel] strange crash in tracked_request_begin

[Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>]

Folks,

I had a crash of a qemu guest in tracked_request_begin.
The testcase was a guest with ramdisk/kernel that reboots in a 
loop. (about 10 times per second) with a single null-co disk 
attached. No idea how to reproduce this, seems to be a lucky hit.

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000000101db5ba in tracked_request_begin (req=req@entry=0x3ff90f1bdc0, bs=bs@entry=0x42a39190, offset=offset@entry=0, bytes=bytes@entry=4096, type=type@entry=BDRV_TRACKED_READ)
    at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/block/io.c:390
#1  0x00000000101de91e in bdrv_co_do_preadv (bs=0x42a39190, offset=0, bytes=4096, qiov=0x3ff7400cbd8, flags=<optimized out>, flags@entry=(unknown: 0))
    at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/block/io.c:1001
#2  0x00000000101dfc3e in bdrv_co_do_readv (flags=(unknown: 0), qiov=<optimized out>, nb_sectors=<optimized out>, sector_num=<optimized out>, bs=<optimized out>)
    at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/block/io.c:1024
#3  bdrv_co_do_rw (opaque=0x3ff7400e370) at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/block/io.c:2173
#4  0x000000001022d8f6 in coroutine_trampoline (i0=<optimized out>, i1=-1946150928) at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/util/coroutine-ucontext.c:79
#5  0x000003ff95ed150a in __makecontext_ret () from /lib64/libc.so.6

looking at the code we are at

QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&bs->tracked_requests, req, list);
which translates to

if (((req)->list.le_next = (&bs->tracked_requests)->lh_first) != NULL) 
    (&bs->tracked_requests)->lh_first->list.le_prev = &(req)->list.le_next;
(&bs->tracked_requests)->lh_first = (req);                       
(req)->list.le_prev = &(&bs->tracked_requests)->lh_first;

gdb says, that (&bs->tracked_requests)->lh_first) is zero in the corefile
(gdb) print /x bs->tracked_requests
$6 = {lh_first = 0x0}

Now looking at the code I am asking myself if this can happen in parallel
to another code that touches tracked_requests, because gcc seems to read
&bs->tracked_requests)->lh_first twice (first to check the value, then
to use it as pointer)

388	    qemu_co_queue_init(&req->wait_queue);
   0x00000000101db594 <+76>:	la	%r2,72(%r13)
   0x00000000101db598 <+80>:	brasl	%r14,0x1022cdc0 <qemu_co_queue_init>

389	
390	    QLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&bs->tracked_requests, req, list);
   0x00000000101db59e <+86>:	lg	%r1,12744(%r12)		# r1 = (&bs->tracked_requests)->lh_first)
   0x00000000101db5a4 <+92>:	stg	%r1,48(%r13)		# (req)->list.le_next = r1
   0x00000000101db5aa <+98>:	cgij	%r1,0,8,0x101db5c0 ---+ # if r1==0 goto
   0x00000000101db5b0 <+104>:	lg	%r1,12744(%r12)       | # r1 = (&bs->tracked_requests)->lh_first) (again!!)
   0x00000000101db5b6 <+110>:	la	%r2,48(%r13)          | 
=> 0x00000000101db5ba <+114>:	stg	%r2,56(%r1)           | # r1==0 bang
   0x00000000101db5c0 <+120>:	stg	%r13,12744(%r12)<-----+
   0x00000000101db5c6 <+126>:	lay	%r12,12744(%r12)
   0x00000000101db5cc <+132>:	stg	%r12,56(%r13)


Christian