Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 28/39] blockdev: Add blockdev-open-tray

[Max Reitz]

On 23.10.2015 16:45, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 23.10.2015 um 16:26 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
>> On 23.10.2015 15:26, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>> Am 19.10.2015 um 17:53 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
>>>> ---
>>>>  blockdev.c           | 49 
>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  qapi/block-core.json | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  qmp-commands.hx      | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  3 files changed, 111 insertions(+)
>>>
>>>> +    bs = blk_bs(blk);
>>>> +    if (bs) {
>>>> +        aio_context = bdrv_get_aio_context(bs);
>>>> +        aio_context_acquire(aio_context);
>>>> +
>>>> +        if (bdrv_op_is_blocked(bs, BLOCK_OP_TYPE_EJECT, errp)) {
>>>> +            goto out;
>>>> +        }
>>>
>>> Is this blocker really for protecting against opening the tray? I think
>>> the BDS shouldn't care about whether the guest can access it. So it's
>>> probably more about preventing a bdrv_close() from happening, i.e. it
>>> would be relevant only for the blockdev-remove-medium command.
>>
>> I don't think so. I intended blockdev-open-tray to be what it is for
>> real hardware: Opening the tray severs all the links between the medium
>> and software trying to access the drive. blockdev-remove-medium should
>> never fail if the tray is already open, since it would never fail in
>> real life.
> 
> Comparison with real hardware works only so far. Real hardware doesn't
> have block jobs and will therefore never set the eject blocker.

It does have software accessing the disk and will therefore lock the tray.

> As I said, though, it's mostly protecting against bdrv_close(). Now that
> we don't call that any more, we don't strictly need the blocker any
> more in order to keep block jobs happy.
> 
> However, we still need to prevent that the connection between BB and BDS
> is severed in case the old BDS was created implicitly and therefore
> would disappear from query-block while the image is still open and in
> use, which we don't want. This touches blockdev-del land more than op
> blockers, though... I think the eject op blocker can go.

OK, so the thing is that block jobs don't use the BB but generally
access the BDS directly. Therefore, they don't care whether the BDS is
still accessible from some guest device/BB.

I'm fine with removing the eject op blocker, but I think you'll
understand if I'd rather not make it part of this series.

> With your check, you prevent the user from opening the tray using QMP
> and then they can't get into a bad state with blockdev-remove-medium
> because without an opened tray that would fail. However, they could
> still eject the medium from within the guest and then use
> blockdev-remove-medium, which will get them in the bad state that we
> wanted to prevent.

Well, the logical conclusion from this and the above simply is "remove
that op blocker". The block job shouldn't care about some guest device
behind some BB opening its tray; so consequently it shouldn't care about
the BDS being removed from that BB either.

Oh, but there is a case where the block job should care: If you've
specified the name of that BB when creating the block job. To me, that
implies that the job should run through that BB and the related guest
device may not open its tray.

Anyway, that's definitely outside of this series's realm. I guess I'll
move the check to qmp_blockdev_remove_medium(), as you suggested.

>> By the way, that's the reason why I generally preferred
>> blk_is_available() over blk_is_inserted() in this series.
> 
> I actually think this use is too restrictive in many cases (and in this
> patch opening the tray is pointlessly forbidden), but I didn't comment
> on it because we can fix it whenever someone needs more.

My opinion still is that if you're accessing a BDS tree through a BB
which is attached to a guest device, you should assume the guest
device's view on the BDS tree, that is, if the device's tray is open,
you won't get any data.

Max

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