Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] 9pfs: don't try to flush self and avoid QEMU hang on reset

[Greg Kurz]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 09:01:50 -0500
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 03/16/2017 11:33 AM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > According to the 9P spec [*], when a client wants to cancel a pending I/O
> > request identified by a given tag (uint16), it must send a Tflush message
> > and wait for the server to respond with a Rflush message before reusing this
> > tag for another I/O. The server may still send a completion message for the
> > I/O if it wasn't actually cancelled but the Rflush message must arrive after
> > that.
> > 
> > QEMU hence waits for the flushed PDU to complete before sending the Rflush
> > message back to the client.
> > 
> > If a client sends 'Tflush tag oldtag' and tag == oldtag, QEMU will then
> > allocate a PDU identified by tag, find it in the PDU list and wait for
> > this same PDU to complete... i.e. wait for a completion that will never
> > happen. This causes a tag and ring slot leak in the guest, and a PDU
> > leak in QEMU, all of them limited by the maximal number of PDUs (128).
> > But, worse, this causes QEMU to hang on device reset since v9fs_reset()
> > wants to drain all pending I/O.
> > 
> > This insane behavior is likely to denote a bug in the client, and it would
> > deserve an Rerror message to be sent back. Unfortunately, the protocol
> > allows it and requires all flush requests to suceed (only a Tflush response 
> >  
> 
> s/suceed/succeed/
> 
> > is expected).
> > 
> > The only option is to detect when we have to handle a self-referencing
> > flush request and report success to the client right away.
> > 
> > [*] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/5/flush
> > 
> > Reported-by: Al Viro <address@hidden>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  hw/9pfs/9p.c |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >   
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> 

Oh, I've sent a v2 for this patch (error_report() a warning) and it is
actually part of the pull request I've sent earlier today... dunno how
to have your Reviewed-by: added there.

Thanks.

--
Greg

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