Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu] pci: Add missing drop of bus master AS reference

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 05:28:17PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 27/03/2017 06:40, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > The recent introduction of a bus master container added
> > memory_region_add_subregion() into the PCI device registering path but
> > missed memory_region_del_subregion() in the unregistering path leaving
> > a reference to the root memory region of the new container.
> > 
> > This adds missing memory_region_del_subregion().
> > 
> > Fixes: 3716d5902d743 ("pci: introduce a bus master container")
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  hw/pci/pci.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/pci/pci.c b/hw/pci/pci.c
> > index e6b08e1988..bd8043c460 100644
> > --- a/hw/pci/pci.c
> > +++ b/hw/pci/pci.c
> > @@ -869,6 +869,8 @@ static void do_pci_unregister_device(PCIDevice *pci_dev)
> >      pci_dev->bus->devices[pci_dev->devfn] = NULL;
> >      pci_config_free(pci_dev);
> >  
> > +    memory_region_del_subregion(&pci_dev->bus_master_container_region,
> > +                                &pci_dev->bus_master_enable_region);
> >      address_space_destroy(&pci_dev->bus_master_as);
> >  }
> >  
> > 
> 
> My own review fail.  The enable subregion would be deleted when a memory
> region is finalized, but the enable subregions is keeping the owner
> alive.  And until the owner is alive, the container region is not
> deleted either.  So there is a reference count cycle, which we need to
> break.
> 
> It's probably good to revisit commit 2e2b8eb ("memory: allow destroying
> a non-empty MemoryRegion", 2015-10-01).  For 2.9,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>

Merged to ppc-for-2.9.

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