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authorKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2015-06-10 13:33:17 +0200
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2015-06-12 17:04:59 +0200
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block: Drain requests before swapping nodes in bdrv_swap()
bdrv_swap() requires that there are no requests in flight on either of the two devices. The request coroutine would work on the wrong BlockDriverState object (with bs->opaque even being interpreted as a different type potentially) and all sorts of bad things would result from this. The currently existing callers mostly ensure that there is no I/O pending on nodes that are swapped. In detail, this is: 1. Live snapshots. This goes through qmp_transaction(), which calls bdrv_drain_all() before doing anything. The command is executed synchronously, so no new I/O can be issued concurrently. 2. snapshot=on in bdrv_open(). We're in the middle of opening the image (both the original image and its temporary overlay), so there can't be any I/O in flight yet. 3. Mirroring. bdrv_drain() is already used on the source device so that the mirror doesn't miss anything. However, the main loop runs between that and the bdrv_swap() (which is actually a bug, being addressed in another series), so there is a small window in which new I/O might be issued that would be in flight during bdrv_swap(). It is safer to just drain the request queue of both devices in bdrv_swap() instead of relying on callers to do the right thing. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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