Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] block: fix QEMU crash with scsi-hd and drive_del

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 28.05.2018 um 14:03 hat Greg Kurz geschrieben:
> Removing a drive with drive_del while it is being used to run an I/O
> intensive workload can cause QEMU to crash.
> 
> An AIO flush can yield at some point:
> 
> blk_aio_flush_entry()
>  blk_co_flush(blk)
>   bdrv_co_flush(blk->root->bs)
>    ...
>     qemu_coroutine_yield()
> 
> and let the HMP command to run, free blk->root and give control
> back to the AIO flush:
> 
>     hmp_drive_del()
>      blk_remove_bs()
>       bdrv_root_unref_child(blk->root)
>        child_bs = blk->root->bs
>        bdrv_detach_child(blk->root)
>         bdrv_replace_child(blk->root, NULL)
>          blk->root->bs = NULL
>         g_free(blk->root) <============== blk->root becomes stale
>        bdrv_unref(child_bs)
>         bdrv_delete(child_bs)
>          bdrv_close()
>           bdrv_drained_begin()
>            bdrv_do_drained_begin()
>             bdrv_drain_recurse()
>              aio_poll()
>               ...
>               qemu_coroutine_switch()
> 
> and the AIO flush completion ends up dereferencing blk->root:
> 
>   blk_aio_complete()
>    scsi_aio_complete()
>     blk_get_aio_context(blk)
>      bs = blk_bs(blk)
>  ie, bs = blk->root ? blk->root->bs : NULL
>             ^^^^^
>             stale
> 
> The problem is that we should avoid making block driver graph
> changes while we have in-flight requests. Let's drain all I/O
> for this BB before calling bdrv_root_unref_child().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>

Hmm... It sounded convincing, but 'make check-tests/test-replication'
fails now. The good news is that with the drain fixes, for which I sent
v2 today, it passes, so instead of staging it in my block branch, I'll
put it at the end of my branch for the drain fixes.

Might take a bit longer than planned until it's in master, sorry.

Kevin