Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: Close a BlockDriverState completely even when bs->drv is NULL

[Max Reitz]

On 2017-11-06 15:53, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> bdrv_close() skips much of its logic when bs->drv is NULL. This is
> fine when we're closing a BlockDriverState that has just been created
> (because e.g the initialization process failed), but it's not enough
> in other cases.
> 
> For example, when a valid qcow2 image is found to be corrupted then
> QEMU marks it as such in the file header and then sets bs->drv to
> NULL in order to make the BlockDriverState unusable. When that BDS is
> later closed then many of its data structures are not freed (leaking
> their memory) and none of its children are detached. This results in
> bdrv_close_all() failing to close all BDSs and making this assertion
> fail when QEMU is being shut down:
> 
>    bdrv_close_all: Assertion `QTAILQ_EMPTY(&all_bdrv_states)' failed.
> 
> This patch makes bdrv_close() do the full uninitialization process
> in all cases. This fixes the problem with corrupted images and still
> works fine with freshly created BDSs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block.c                    | 57 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  tests/qemu-iotests/060     | 13 +++++++++++
>  tests/qemu-iotests/060.out | 12 ++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

Sooo...  What's the exact status of this patch? :-)

Max

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