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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org, "Hanna Reitz" <hreitz@redhat.com>,
	"Ninad Palsule" <ninad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block/file-posix: don't use functions calling AIO_WAIT_WHILE in worker threads
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 13:51:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+zVbCDHoVKtFv0t@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230209154522.1164401-1-eesposit@redhat.com>

Am 09.02.2023 um 16:45 hat Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito geschrieben:
> When calling bdrv_getlength() in handle_aiocb_write_zeroes(), the
> function creates a new coroutine and then waits that it finishes using
> AIO_WAIT_WHILE.
> The problem is that this function could also run in a worker thread,
> that has a different AioContext from main loop and iothreads, therefore
> in AIO_WAIT_WHILE we will have in_aio_context_home_thread(ctx) == false
> and therefore
> assert(qemu_get_current_aio_context() == qemu_get_aio_context());
> in the else branch will fail, crashing QEMU.
> 
> Aside from that, bdrv_getlength() is wrong also conceptually, because
> it reads the BDS graph from another thread and is not protected by
> any lock.
> 
> Replace it with raw_co_getlength, that doesn't create a coroutine and
> doesn't read the BDS graph.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin



      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-15 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-09 15:45 [PATCH] block/file-posix: don't use functions calling AIO_WAIT_WHILE in worker threads Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2023-02-09 16:06 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-02-09 17:31 ` Kevin Wolf
2023-02-15 12:51 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]

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