Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] segfault in parallel blockjobs (iotest 30)

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

CC Jeff Cody

... who may or may not be preoccupied with Thanksgiving travel now.

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On 11/21/2017 10:31 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Tue 21 Nov 2017 04:18:13 PM CET, Anton Nefedov wrote:
> 
>>>> Or, perhaps another approach, keep BlockJob referenced while it is
>>>> paused (by block_job_pause/resume_all()). That should prevent it
>>>> from deleting the BB.
>>>
>>> Yes, I tried this and it actually solves the issue. But I still think
>>> that the problem is that block jobs are allowed to finish when they
>>> are paused.
>>
>> Agree, but
>>
>>> Adding block_job_pause_point(&s->common) at the end of stream_run()
>>> fixes the problem too.
>>
>> would be a nice fix, but it only works unless the job is already
>> deferred, right?
> 
> Right, I didn't mean to propose it as the proper solution (it would
> still leave mirror job vulnerable because it's already paused by the
> time it calls defer_to_main_loop()).
> 
>> This:
>>
>>  >> keep BlockJob referenced while it is
>>  >> paused (by block_job_pause/resume_all()). That should prevent it from
>>  >> deleting the BB.
>>
>> looks kind of hacky; maybe referencing in block_job_pause() (and not
>> just pause_all) seems more correct? I think it didn't work for me
>> right away though. But I can look more.
> 
> You have to be careful when you unref the block job because you may
> destroy it, and therefore block_job_next() in block_job_resume_all()
> would be using freed memory.
> 
> Berto
>