Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/6] vhost: add regions to temporary list

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Michael S. Tsirkin (mst@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 04:27:31PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > Also it seems that we have a race in current code where
> > region_del() unrefs memory region first and then by the
> > commit time memory region could be gone since old flatview
> > is unreffed before commit callback is called, but guest still
> > uses old memory map until vhost_set_mem_table() is complete.
> > We probably should unref deleted(old) sections after
> > guest gets new memmap.
> 
> Care trying to post a patch for stable? Might be a good idea
> to merge before this rework, for the sake of downstreams.

I think the 1st patch of my v5 might be suitable for that; please
have a look.

Dave

> > 
> > >  }
> > >  
> > >  static int vhost_virtqueue_set_addr(struct vhost_dev *dev,
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