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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration/rdma: unegister fd handler
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration/rdma: unegister fd handler |
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Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:31:37 +0000 |
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* Peter Xu (address@hidden) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 05:31:11PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> >
> > Unregister the fd handler before we destroy the channel,
> > otherwise we've got a race where we might land in the
> > fd handler just as we're closing the device.
> >
> > (The race is quite data dependent, you just have to have
> > the right set of devices for it to trigger).
> >
> > Corresponds to RH bz: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1666601
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
>
> (Could the crash happened because the same fd number is re-used after
> the RDMA channel was destroyed? Then when the fd has an event, it'll
> be delivered to rdma_cm_poll_handler() while the fd is not really the
> RDMA channel handle any more)
That's an interesting thought, I'd assumed it was just a race, but being
dependent on the fd numbering would explain why it was so delicate to
reproduce it.
> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
Thanks!
Dave
> Regards,
>
> --
> Peter Xu
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK