[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix for crash after migration in virtio-rng on bi-endian targets

[David Gibson]

VirtIO devices now remember which endianness they're operating in in order
to support targets which may have guests of either endianness, such as
powerpc.  This endianness state is transferred in a subsection of the
virtio device's information.

With virtio-rng this can lead to an abort after a loadvm hitting the
assert() in virtio_is_big_endian().  This can be reproduced by doing a
migrate and load from file on a bi-endian target with a virtio-rng device.
The actual guest state isn't particularly important to triggering this.

The cause is that virtio_rng_load_device() calls virtio_rng_process() which
accesses the ring and thus needs the endianness.  However,
virtio_rng_process() is called via virtio_load() before it loads the
subsections.  Essentially the ->load callback in VirtioDeviceClass should
only be used for actually reading the device state from the stream, not for
post-load re-initialization.

This patch fixes the bug by moving the virtio_rng_process() after the call
to virtio_load().  Better yet would be to convert virtio to use vmsd and
have the virtio_rng_process() as a post_load callback, but that's a bigger
project for another day.

This is bugfix, and should be considered for the 2.2 branch.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
---
 hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
index e85a979..473c044 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
@@ -113,20 +113,22 @@ static void virtio_rng_save(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque)
 
 static int virtio_rng_load(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque, int version_id)
 {
+    VirtIORNG *vrng = opaque;
+    int ret;
+
     if (version_id != 1) {
         return -EINVAL;
     }
-    return virtio_load(VIRTIO_DEVICE(opaque), f, version_id);
-}
+    ret = virtio_load(VIRTIO_DEVICE(vrng), f, version_id);
+    if (ret != 0) {
+        return ret;
+    }
 
-static int virtio_rng_load_device(VirtIODevice *vdev, QEMUFile *f,
-                                  int version_id)
-{
     /* We may have an element ready but couldn't process it due to a quota
      * limit.  Make sure to try again after live migration when the quota may
      * have been reset.
      */
-    virtio_rng_process(VIRTIO_RNG(vdev));
+    virtio_rng_process(vrng);
 
     return 0;
 }
@@ -231,7 +233,6 @@ static void virtio_rng_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void 
*data)
     vdc->realize = virtio_rng_device_realize;
     vdc->unrealize = virtio_rng_device_unrealize;
     vdc->get_features = get_features;
-    vdc->load = virtio_rng_load_device;
 }
 
 static void virtio_rng_initfn(Object *obj)
-- 
1.9.3