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[Xen-devel] [Patch] Fix blktap oops on domain shutdown

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [Patch] Fix blktap oops on domain shutdown
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:47:43 +0100
Cc: Julian Chesterfield <jac90@xxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Warfield <andrew.warfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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When a domain shuts down with a blktap-backed block device open, it can
easily cause a dom0 oops.  The XenbusStateClosing event can occur while
the tapdisk userland thread is still processing IO requests (eg.
readaheads) from the domU.  But the xenbus state handler calls
tap_blkif_unmap(), unmapping the blkif->blk_ring.sring rin buffer, so
when the tapdisk thread next calls the BLKTAP_IOCTL_KICK_FE to return
the completion event to the FE via that ring buffer, it oopses.

This can be fixed simply by not calling tap_blkif_unmap() in this case;
the ring buffer will still be unmapped later on when the blkif is
destroyed by blktap_remove(), only then it will properly wait for the
blkif refcnt to reach zero before doing so.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Tweedie <sct@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r bd811e94d293 -r ed51caee4fe6 
linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blktap/xenbus.c
--- a/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blktap/xenbus.c  Tue Sep 26 19:50:07 
2006 +0100
+++ b/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blktap/xenbus.c  Thu Sep 28 15:38:25 
2006 +0100
@@ -273,7 +273,6 @@ static void tap_frontend_changed(struct 
                        kthread_stop(be->blkif->xenblkd);
                        be->blkif->xenblkd = NULL;
                }
-               tap_blkif_unmap(be->blkif);
                xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateClosing);
                break;
 



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