Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH 4/4] virtio-blk: Clean up start/stop with mutex and BH

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 03/17 16:07, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17/03/2016 16:00, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >> > +    data = g_new(VirtIOBlockStartData, 1);
> >> > +    data->vblk = vblk;
> >> > +    data->bh = aio_bh_new(s->ctx, virtio_blk_data_plane_start_bh_cb, data);
> >> > +    qemu_bh_schedule(data->bh);
> >> > +    qemu_mutex_unlock(&s->start_stop_lock);
> >> >      return;
> > This BH usage pattern is dangerous:
> > 
> > 1. The BH is created and scheduled.
> > 2. Before the BH executes the device is unrealized.
> > 3. The data->bh pointer is inaccessible so we have a dangling BH that
> >    will access vblk after vblk has been freed.
> > 
> > In some cases it can be safe but I don't see why the pattern is safe in
> > this case.  Either the BH needs to hold some sort of reference to keep
> > vblk alive, or vblk needs to know about pending BHs so they can be
> > deleted.
> 
> You're right.  After unrealizing virtio_blk_data_plane_stop has set of
> vblk->dataplane_started = false, so that's covered.  However, you still
> need an object_ref/object_object_unref pair.

Is it safe to call object_unref outside BQL?

Fam