Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] block/file-posix.c: fix not reopened lock file descriptor

[Fam Zheng]

On Thu, 03/22 18:39, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> [ Cc: qemu-block ]
> 
> Am 22.03.2018 um 18:20 hat Dion Bosschieter geschrieben:
> > In commit 244a5668106297378391b768e7288eb157616f64 another
> > file descriptor to BDRVRawState is added. When we try to issue the
> > reopen command only s->fd is reopened; lock_fd could still hold an old
> > file descriptor "possibly" pointing to another file.
> > 
> > - change raw_reopen_prepare so it checks use_lock from BDRVRawState and
> > tries to reopen lock_fd accordingly
> > - change raw_reopen_commit so it closes the old lock_fd on use_lock
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dion Bosschieter <address@hidden>
> 
> bdrv_reopen() is not meant for opening a different file, it is meant to
> change the flags and options of the same file. Do you have a use case
> where you would actually need to switch to a different file?
> 
> As far as I know, lock_fd was specifically introduced _because_ it stays
> the same across reopen, so we don't need a racy release/reacquire pair.
> Fam (CCed) should know more.

I think (I remember we have discussed a bit before) techinically we can do
reopen just well without a separate s->lock_fd.  After all all locks we acquire
are shared lock, so it is possible to handle the lock between old fd and the new
one back and forth freely.

Fam