Fabiano Rosas <[email protected]> writes:

> We're currently allowing the process_incoming_migration_bh bottom-half
> to run without holding a reference to the 'current_migration' object,
> which leads to a segmentation fault if the BH is still live after
> migration_shutdown() has dropped the last reference to
> current_migration.
>
> In my system the bug manifests as migrate_multifd() returning true
> when it shouldn't and multifd_load_shutdown() calling
> multifd_recv_terminate_threads() which crashes due to an uninitialized
> multifd_recv_state.
>
> Fix the issue by holding a reference to the object when scheduling the
> BH and dropping it before returning from the BH. The same is already
> done for the cleanup_bh at migrate_fd_cleanup_schedule().
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <[email protected]>

Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1969

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