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[v8,10/17] device_core: use drain_call_rcu in in qmp_device_add

Message ID 20201007115700.707938-11-pbonzini@redhat.com
State New
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Series Fix scsi devices plug/unplug races w.r.t virtio-scsi iothread | expand

Commit Message

Paolo Bonzini Oct. 7, 2020, 11:56 a.m. UTC 
From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>

Soon, a device removal might only happen on RCU callback execution.
This is okay for device-del which provides a DEVICE_DELETED event,
but not for the failure case of device-add.  To avoid changing
monitor semantics, just drain all pending RCU callbacks on error.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200913160259.32145-4-mlevitsk@redhat.com>
[Don't use it in qmp_device_del. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 softmmu/qdev-monitor.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c b/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c
index e9b7228480..bcfb90a08f 100644
--- a/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c
+++ b/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c
@@ -803,6 +803,18 @@  void qmp_device_add(QDict *qdict, QObject **ret_data, Error **errp)
         return;
     }
     dev = qdev_device_add(opts, errp);
+
+    /*
+     * Drain all pending RCU callbacks. This is done because
+     * some bus related operations can delay a device removal
+     * (in this case this can happen if device is added and then
+     * removed due to a configuration error)
+     * to a RCU callback, but user might expect that this interface
+     * will finish its job completely once qmp command returns result
+     * to the user
+     */
+    drain_call_rcu();
+
     if (!dev) {
         qemu_opts_del(opts);
         return;