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authorAlberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>2016-10-28 10:08:03 +0300
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2016-10-31 16:52:38 +0100
commit40840e419be31e6a32e6ea24511c74b389d5e0e4 (patch)
treef6ee676e3c5a53986969af1cfa93d9d69a611f23 /replication.h
parentc0778f6693213d0d6bfa7bee8045374a798db750 (diff)
block: Pause all jobs during bdrv_reopen_multiple()
When a BlockDriverState is about to be reopened it can trigger certain operations that need to write to disk. During this process a different block job can be woken up. If that block job completes and also needs to call bdrv_reopen() it can happen that it needs to do it on the same BlockDriverState that is still in the process of being reopened. This can have fatal consequences, like in this example: 1) Block job A starts and sleeps after a while. 2) Block job B starts and tries to reopen node1 (a qcow2 file). 3) Reopening node1 means flushing and replacing its qcow2 cache. 4) While the qcow2 cache is being flushed, job A wakes up. 5) Job A completes and reopens node1, replacing its cache. 6) Job B resumes, but the cache that was being flushed no longer exists. This patch splits the bdrv_drain_all() call to keep all block jobs paused during bdrv_reopen_multiple(), so that step 4 can never happen and the operation is safe. Note that this scenario can only happen if both bdrv_reopen() calls are made by block jobs on the same backing chain. Otherwise there's no chance that the same BlockDriverState appears in both reopen queues. Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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