[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 068/108] aio: fix qemu_bh_schedule() bh->ctx race condition

[Michael Roth]

From: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>

qemu_bh_schedule() is supposed to be thread-safe at least the first time
it is called.  Unfortunately this is not quite true:

  bh->scheduled = 1;
  aio_notify(bh->ctx);

Since another thread may run the BH callback once it has been scheduled,
there is a race condition if the callback frees the BH before
aio_notify(bh->ctx) has a chance to run.

Reported-by: Stefan Priebe <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
Tested-by: Stefan Priebe <address@hidden>
(cherry picked from commit 924fe1293c3e7a3c787bbdfb351e7f168caee3e9)
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <address@hidden>
---
 async.c | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/async.c b/async.c
index 6930185..5b6fe6b 100644
--- a/async.c
+++ b/async.c
@@ -117,15 +117,21 @@ void qemu_bh_schedule_idle(QEMUBH *bh)
 
 void qemu_bh_schedule(QEMUBH *bh)
 {
+    AioContext *ctx;
+
     if (bh->scheduled)
         return;
+    ctx = bh->ctx;
     bh->idle = 0;
-    /* Make sure that idle & any writes needed by the callback are done
-     * before the locations are read in the aio_bh_poll.
+    /* Make sure that:
+     * 1. idle & any writes needed by the callback are done before the
+     *    locations are read in the aio_bh_poll.
+     * 2. ctx is loaded before scheduled is set and the callback has a chance
+     *    to execute.
      */
-    smp_wmb();
+    smp_mb();
     bh->scheduled = 1;
-    aio_notify(bh->ctx);
+    aio_notify(ctx);
 }
 
 
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