Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] block: Fix qemu crash when using scsi-block

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 23/11/2017 11:23, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> You are right.  I audited the blk_aio_preadv() callers and they all keep
> qiov around until the request is complete.
> 
> Actually this makes sense because even in the simple non-coroutine case
> with aio=threads the qiov hasn't necessarily been read yet when the
> function returns.  The aio_worker() function executes later and only
> then is qiov handed to the host kernel.
> 
> So this is a one-off bug in blk_aio_ioctl() callers.

Only in blk_aio_ioctl, not in the callers.

Paolo