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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: fix external snapshot abort


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: fix external snapshot abort permission error
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 10:37:13 -0500
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On 06/07/2017 08:55 AM, Jeff Cody wrote:
> In external_snapshot_abort(), we try to undo what was done in
> external_snapshot_prepare() calling bdrv_replace_node() to swap the
> nodes back.  However, we receive a permissions error as writers are
> blocked on the old node, which is now the new node backing file.
> 
> An easy fix (initially suggested by Kevin Wolf) is to call
> bdrv_set_backing_hd() on the new node, to set the backing node to NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> ---
>  blockdev.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

> diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
> index 892d768..6472548 100644
> --- a/blockdev.c
> +++ b/blockdev.c
> @@ -1803,7 +1803,11 @@ static void external_snapshot_abort(BlkActionState 
> *common)
>                               DO_UPCAST(ExternalSnapshotState, common, 
> common);
>      if (state->new_bs) {
>          if (state->overlay_appended) {
> +            bdrv_ref(state->old_bs);   /* we can't let bdrv_set_backind_hd()
> +                                          close state->old_bs; we need it */
> +            bdrv_set_backing_hd(state->new_bs, NULL, &error_abort);
>              bdrv_replace_node(state->new_bs, state->old_bs, &error_abort);
> +            bdrv_unref(state->old_bs); /* bdrv_replace_node() ref'ed old_bs 
> */
>          }
>      }
>  }
> 

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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