Re: [PATCH for 4.2-rc5 1/1] block/qcow2-bitmap: fix crash bug in qcow2_co_remove_persistent_dirty_bitmap

[John Snow]

Did you mean to mark this as [PULL] ?

On 12/9/19 11:16 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> From: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <address@hidden>
> 
> Here is double bug:
> 
> First, return error but not set errp. This may lead to:
> qmp block-dirty-bitmap-remove may report success when actually failed
> 
> block-dirty-bitmap-remove used in a transaction will crash, as
> qmp_transaction will think that it returned success and will call
> block_dirty_bitmap_remove_commit which will crash, as state->bitmap is
> NULL
> 
> Second (like in anecdote), this case is not an error at all. As it is
> documented in the comment above bdrv_co_remove_persistent_dirty_bitmap
> definition, absence of bitmap is not an error, and similar case handled
> at start of qcow2_co_remove_persistent_dirty_bitmap, it returns 0 when
> there is no bitmaps at all.
> 
> But when there are some bitmaps, but not the requested one, it return
> error with errp unset.
> 
> Fix that.
> 
> Trigger:
> 1. create persistent bitmap A
> 2. shutdown vm  (bitmap A is synced)
> 3. start vm
> 4. create persistent bitmap B
> 5. remove bitmap B - it fails (and crashes if in transaction)
> 
> Potential workaround (rather invasive to ask clients to implement it):
> 1. create persistent bitmap A
> 2. shutdown vm
> 3. start vm
> 4. create persistent bitmap B
> 5. remember, that we want to remove bitmap B after vm shutdown
> ...
>   some other operations
> ...
> 6. vm shutdown
> 7. start vm in stopped mode, and remove all bitmaps marked for removing
> 8. stop vm
> 
> Fixes: b56a1e31759b750
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <address@hidden>
> Message-Id: <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: John Snow <address@hidden>
> [eblake: commit message tweaks]
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/qcow2-bitmap.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/qcow2-bitmap.c b/block/qcow2-bitmap.c
> index 8abaf632fc7d..c6c8ebbe89d4 100644
> --- a/block/qcow2-bitmap.c
> +++ b/block/qcow2-bitmap.c
> @@ -1469,8 +1469,10 @@ int coroutine_fn 
> qcow2_co_remove_persistent_dirty_bitmap(BlockDriverState *bs,
>      Qcow2BitmapList *bm_list;
> 
>      if (s->nb_bitmaps == 0) {
> -        /* Absence of the bitmap is not an error: see explanation above
> -         * bdrv_remove_persistent_dirty_bitmap() definition. */
> +        /*
> +         * Absence of the bitmap is not an error: see explanation above
> +         * bdrv_co_remove_persistent_dirty_bitmap() definition.
> +         */
>          return 0;
>      }
> 
> @@ -1485,7 +1487,8 @@ int coroutine_fn 
> qcow2_co_remove_persistent_dirty_bitmap(BlockDriverState *bs,
> 
>      bm = find_bitmap_by_name(bm_list, name);
>      if (bm == NULL) {
> -        ret = -EINVAL;
> +        /* Absence of the bitmap is not an error, see above. */
> +        ret = 0;
>          goto out;
>      }
> 

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