Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio: reset region cache when on queue deletion

[Yuri Benditovich]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:58 AM Jason Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 2019/12/26 下午12:36, Yuri Benditovich wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1708480
> > Fix leak of region reference that prevents complete
> > device deletion on hot unplug.
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>
> More information is needed here, the bug said only q35 can meet this
> issue. What makes q35 different here?
>

I do not have any ready answer, I did not dig into it too much.
Probably Michael Tsirkin or Paolo Bonzini can answer without digging.

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> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yuri Benditovich <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >   hw/virtio/virtio.c | 5 +++++
> >   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > index 04716b5f6c..baadec8abc 100644
> > --- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > @@ -2340,6 +2340,11 @@ void virtio_del_queue(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n)
> >       vdev->vq[n].vring.num_default = 0;
> >       vdev->vq[n].handle_output = NULL;
> >       vdev->vq[n].handle_aio_output = NULL;
> > +    /*
> > +     * with vring.num = 0 the queue will be ignored
> > +     * in later loops of region cache reset
> > +     */
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>
> I can't get the meaning of this comment.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> > +    virtio_virtqueue_reset_region_cache(&vdev->vq[n]);
> >       g_free(vdev->vq[n].used_elems);
> >   }
> >
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