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From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, pl@kamp.de, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	qemu-stable@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, dgibson@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] virtio-blk: Fix double completion for werror=stop
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:21:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <564B4607.4060807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151117103428.GA27541@stefanha-x1.localdomain>



On 17/11/2015 11:34, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:20:11PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
>> When a request R is absorbed by request M, it is appended to the
>> "mr_next" queue led by M, and is completed together with the completion
>> of M, in virtio_blk_rw_complete.
>>
>> During DMA restart in virtio_blk_dma_restart_bh, requests in s->rq are
>> parsed and submitted again, possibly with a stale req->mr_next. It could
>> be a problem if the request merging in virtio_blk_handle_request hasn't
>> refreshed every mr_next pointer, in which case, virtio_blk_rw_complete
>> could walk through unexpected requests following the stale pointers.
>>
>> Fix this by unsetting the pointer in virtio_blk_rw_complete. It is safe
>> because this req is either completed and freed right away, or it will be
>> restarted and parsed from scratch out of the vq later.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> v3: Fix as Stefan suggested.
>> ---
>>  hw/block/virtio-blk.c | 4 ++++
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> Thanks, applied to my block tree:
> https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

I have also tested this one and it works fine.

Tested-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>

Laurent

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-17 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-17 10:20 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] virtio-blk: Fix double completion for werror=stop Fam Zheng
2015-11-17 10:34 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-11-17 15:21   ` Laurent Vivier [this message]
2015-11-22 19:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-23  0:39   ` Fam Zheng

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