drv->drained_poll() is only implemented in mirror, and allows
it to drain from within the coroutine. The mirror implementation uses
in_drain flag to recognize when it is draining from coroutine,
and consequently avoid deadlocking (wait the poll condition in
child_job_drained_poll to wait for itself).
The problem is that this flag is dangerous, because it breaks
bdrv_drained_begin() invariants: once drained_begin ends, all
jobs, in_flight requests, and anything running in the iothread
are blocked.
This can be broken in such way:
iothread(mirror): s->in_drain = true; // mirror.c:1112
main loop: bdrv_drained_begin(mirror_bs);
/*
* drained_begin wait for bdrv_drain_poll_top_level() condition,
* that translates in child_job_drained_poll() for jobs, but
* mirror implements drv->drained_poll() so it returns
* !!in_flight_requests, which his 0 (assertion in mirror.c:1105).
*/
main loop: thinks iothread is stopped and is modifying the graph...
iothread(mirror): *continues*, as nothing is stopping it
iothread(mirror): bdrv_drained_begin(bs);
/* draining reads the graph while it is modified!! */
main loop: done modifying the graph...
In order to fix this, we can simply allow drv->drained_poll()
to be called only by the iothread, and not the main loop.
We distinguish it by using in_aio_context_home_thread(), that
returns false if @ctx is not the same as the thread that runs it.
Co-Developed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
---
blockjob.c | 13 ++++++++++---
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/blockjob.c b/blockjob.c
index 4868453d74..14a919b3cc 100644
--- a/blockjob.c
+++ b/blockjob.c
@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ static bool child_job_drained_poll(BdrvChild *c)
BlockJob *bjob = c->opaque;
Job *job = &bjob->job;
const BlockJobDriver *drv = block_job_driver(bjob);
+ AioContext *ctx;
+ ctx = job->aio_context;
/* An inactive or completed job doesn't have any pending requests. Jobs
* with !job->busy are either already paused or have a pause point after
* being reentered, so no job driver code will run before they pause. */
@@ -118,9 +120,14 @@ static bool child_job_drained_poll(BdrvChild *c)
return false;
}
- /* Otherwise, assume that it isn't fully stopped yet, but allow the job to
- * override this assumption. */
- if (drv->drained_poll) {
+ /*
+ * Otherwise, assume that it isn't fully stopped yet, but allow the job to
+ * override this assumption, if the drain is being performed in the
+ * iothread. We need to check that the caller is the home thread because
+ * it could otherwise lead the main loop to exit polling while the job
+ * has not paused yet.
+ */
+ if (in_aio_context_home_thread(ctx) && drv->drained_poll) {
return drv->drained_poll(bjob);
} else {
return true;
--
2.31.1