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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH linux-2.6.18-xen] fix xenbus_transaction_start()
>>> On 13.05.11 at 10:15, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 12.05.11 at 12:24, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> fix xenbus_transaction_start() hang caused by double xenbus_transaction_end()
>>
>> vbd_resize() up_read()'s xs_state.suspend_mutex twice in a row via double
>> xenbus_transaction_end() calls. The next down_read() in
>> xenbus_transaction_start() (at eg. the next resize attempt) hangs.
>>
>> See RHBZ#618317.
>>
>> Thanks for considering.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> (I wonder how this ever passed any testing.)
Hmm, I think if this really wasn't *that* bad. In particular I'm finding
that neither pv-ops nor the legacy tree has anything called
suspend_mutex in drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c, nor is there any
other mutex being up_read()-ed in transaction_end().
What got corrupted by the double call was transaction_count, which
would have had a negative effect at the next transaction_suspend()
(but not at any subsequent transaction_start()).
Jan
> The same would be needed for pv-ops too afaics.
>
> Jan
>
>> ---
>> drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c b/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c
>> --- a/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c
>> +++ b/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c
>> @@ -156,6 +156,7 @@
>> goto again;
>> if (err)
>> printk(KERN_WARNING "Error ending transaction");
>> + return;
>> abort:
>> xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 1);
>> }
>>
>>
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