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From: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
To: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Cc: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com>, <ericvh@gmail.com>,
	<lucho@ionkov.net>, <asmadeus@codewreck.org>,
	<v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>, <justin.he@arm.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [V9fs-developer] [PATCH RFC 0/4] 9p: fix open-unlink-f*syscall bug
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:43:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200914144325.7928dbd3@bahia.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2828347.d8MXItvaOC@silver>

On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:06:34 +0200
Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com> wrote:

> On Montag, 14. September 2020 10:35:46 CEST Greg Kurz wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:37:50 +0800
> > 
> > Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com> wrote:
> > > open-unlink-f*syscall bug is a well-known bug in 9p, we try to fix the bug
> > > in this patch set.
> > > I take Eric's and Greg's patches which constiute the 1/4 - 3/4 of this
> > > patch set as the main frame of the solution. In patch 4/4, I fix the fid
> > > race issue exists in Greg's patch.
> > 
> > IIRC some patches were needed on the QEMU side as well... I'm spending
> > less time on 9pfs in QEMU, so Cc'ing the new maintainer:
> > 
> > Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
> 
> AFAICS this is about this old bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1336794
> 

Correct.

> So yes, looks like this also requires changes to the 9pfs 'local' fs driver on 
> QEMU side:
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg07586.html
> 
> Eric, Greg, would there be an easy way to establish QEMU test cases running 
> the 9pfs 'local' fs driver? Right now we only have 9pfs qtest cases for QEMU 
> which can only use the 'synth' driver, which is not helpful for such kind of 
> issues.
> 

I guess it's possible to introduce new qtests that start QEMU with
-fsdev local instead of -fsdev synth... I haven't looked in a while
though, so I won't comment on "easy way" ;-)

> Best regards,
> Christian Schoenebeck
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-14 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-14  3:37 [PATCH RFC 0/4] 9p: fix open-unlink-f*syscall bug Jianyong Wu
2020-09-14  3:37 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] fs/9p: fix create-unlink-getattr idiom Jianyong Wu
2020-09-14  6:00   ` Dominique Martinet
2020-09-14  8:11     ` Greg Kurz
2020-09-14  3:37 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] fs/9p: track open fids Jianyong Wu
2020-09-14  3:37 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] fs/9p: search open fids first Jianyong Wu
2020-09-14  3:37 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] 9p: fix race issue in fid contention Jianyong Wu
2020-09-14  5:55   ` Dominique Martinet
2020-09-14  6:31     ` [V9fs-developer] " Dominique Martinet
2020-09-14  7:50       ` Jianyong Wu
2020-09-14  7:32     ` Jianyong Wu
2020-09-14  8:32       ` Dominique Martinet
2020-09-14 12:34         ` Jianyong Wu
2020-09-18  8:57         ` Jianyong Wu
2020-09-18  9:34           ` Dominique Martinet
2020-09-18 10:05             ` Jianyong Wu
2020-09-14  8:35 ` [V9fs-developer] [PATCH RFC 0/4] 9p: fix open-unlink-f*syscall bug Greg Kurz
2020-09-14 11:06   ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-14 12:43     ` Greg Kurz [this message]
2020-09-14 15:19       ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-14 15:46         ` Greg Kurz
2020-09-16 12:16           ` Greg Kurz
2020-09-17 10:07             ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-09-14 12:36   ` Jianyong Wu

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