On 07/11/2017 02:59, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Mon, 11/06 17:33, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 06/11/2017 17:11, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>> Am 03.11.2017 um 11:26 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 06:42:33AM +0000, lizhengui wrote:
>>>>> Hi, when I attach virtio-scsi disk to VM, the qemu crash happened at very
>>>>> low probability.
>>>>>
>>>>> The qemu crash bt is below:
>>>>>
>>>>> #0 0x00007f2be3ada1d7 in raise () from /usr/lib64/libc.so.6
>>>>> #1 0x00007f2be3adb8c8 in abort () from /usr/lib64/libc.so.6
>>>>> #2 0x000000000084fe49 in PAT_abort ()
>>>>> #3 0x000000000084ce8d in patchIllInsHandler ()
>>>>> #4 <signal handler called>
>>>>> #5 0x00000000008228bb in qemu_strnlen ()
>>>>> #6 0x0000000000822934 in strpadcpy ()
>>>>> #7 0x0000000000684a88 in scsi_disk_emulate_inquiry ()
>>>>> #8 0x000000000068744b in scsi_disk_emulate_command ()
>>>>> #9 0x000000000068c481 in scsi_req_enqueue ()
>>>>> #10 0x00000000004b1f00 in virtio_scsi_handle_cmd_req_submit ()
>>>>> #11 0x00000000004b2e9e in virtio_scsi_handle_cmd_vq ()
>>>>> #12 0x000000000076dba7 in aio_dispatch ()
>>>>> #13 0x000000000076dd96 in aio_poll ()
>>>>> #14 0x00000000007a8673 in blk_prw ()
>>>>> #15 0x00000000007a922c in blk_pread ()
>>>>> #16 0x00000000007a9cd0 in blk_pread_unthrottled ()
>>>>> #17 0x00000000005cb404 in guess_disk_lchs ()
>>>>> #18 0x00000000005cb5b4 in hd_geometry_guess ()
>>>>> #19 0x00000000005cad56 in blkconf_geometry ()
>>>>> #20 0x0000000000685956 in scsi_realize ()
>>>>> #21 0x000000000068d3e3 in scsi_qdev_realize ()
>>>>> #22 0x00000000005e3938 in device_set_realized ()
>>>>> #23 0x000000000075bced in property_set_bool ()
>>>>> #24 0x0000000000760205 in object_property_set_qobject ()
>>>>> #25 0x000000000075df64 in object_property_set_bool ()
>>>>> #26 0x00000000005580ad in qdev_device_add ()
>>>>> #27 0x000000000055850b in qmp_device_add ()
>>>>> #28 0x0000000000818b37 in do_qmp_dispatch.constprop.1 ()
>>>>> #29 0x0000000000818d8b in qmp_dispatch ()
>>>>> #30 0x000000000045d212 in handle_qmp_command ()
>>>>> #31 0x000000000081f819 in json_message_process_token ()
>>>>> #32 0x00000000008434d0 in json_lexer_feed_char ()
>>>>> #33 0x00000000008435e6 in json_lexer_feed ()
>>>>> #34 0x000000000045bd72 in monitor_qmp_read ()
>>>>> #35 0x000000000055ecf3 in tcp_chr_read ()
>>>>> #36 0x00007f2be4cf899a in g_main_context_dispatch () from
>>>>> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
>>>>> #37 0x000000000076b86b in os_host_main_loop_wait ()
>>>>> #38 0x000000000076b995 in main_loop_wait ()
>>>>> #39 0x0000000000569c51 in main_loop ()
>>>>> #40 0x0000000000420665 in main ()
>>>>>
>>>>> From the qemu crash bt, we can see that the scsi_realize has not
>>>>> completed yet. Some fields sush as vendor, version in SCSIDiskState is
>>>>> Null at this moment. If qemu handles scsi request from this scsi disk at
>>>>> this moment, the qemu will access some null pointers and cause crash.
>>>>> How can I solve this problem? Should we add a check that whether the scsi
>>>>> disk has realized or not in scsi_disk_emulate_command before
>>>>> Handling scsi requests?
>>>>
>>>> Please try this patch:
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/hw/block/block.c b/hw/block/block.c
>>>> index 27878d0087..df99ddb899 100644
>>>> --- a/hw/block/block.c
>>>> +++ b/hw/block/block.c
>>>> @@ -120,9 +120,16 @@ void blkconf_geometry(BlockConf *conf, int *ptrans,
>>>> }
>>>> }
>>>> if (!conf->cyls && !conf->heads && !conf->secs) {
>>>> + AioContext *ctx = blk_get_aio_context(conf->blk);
>>>> +
>>>> + /* Callers may not expect this function to dispatch aio handlers,
>>>> so
>>>> + * disable external aio such as guest device emulation.
>>>> + */
>>>> + aio_disable_external(ctx);
>>>> hd_geometry_guess(conf->blk,
>>>> &conf->cyls, &conf->heads, &conf->secs,
>>>> ptrans);
>>>> + aio_enable_external(ctx);
>>>> } else if (ptrans && *ptrans == BIOS_ATA_TRANSLATION_AUTO) {
>>>> *ptrans = hd_bios_chs_auto_trans(conf->cyls, conf->heads,
>>>> conf->secs);
>>>> }
>>>
>>> But why is the new disk even attached to the controller and visible to
>>> the guest at this point when it hasn't completed its initialisation yet?
>>> Isn't the root problem that we're initialising things in the wrong
>>> order?
>>
>> Well, the root cause then is that scsi_device_find is just reusing the
>> list of devices on the SCSI bus. Devices are added to that list very
>> early by qdev_set_parent_bus.
>>
>> Stefan's patch could make the issue even harder to hit, but I think that
>> with iothreads you could hit it anyway.
>>
>> The solution is probably to add an "online" flag to the device, and set
>> it in scsi_device_realize. But even that has the issue that access to
>> the list is not protected with a lock. What do you think?
>
> Can main thread somehow call aio_context_acquire(vs->ctx) (and release) around
> qdev_set_parent_bus()? virtio_scsi_device_find() takes the lock.
No, the context is not set yet. But the locking is easy to add,
separately from the bug that Zhengui is reporting.
Paolo
