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authorGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>2009-05-07 11:31:44 +0300
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2009-05-08 15:54:06 -0500
commit8bc2ad6a6aec73844fb0091f9daf73dc8ee4d61c (patch)
tree0d8d7a46576b3823ca0646c4d4df1e3fa1394289
parentf24f1e2a857db4b5bccced87a1e29f11d478b862 (diff)
downloadqemu-8bc2ad6a6aec73844fb0091f9daf73dc8ee4d61c.tar.gz
Fix cluster freeing in qcow2
Need to drop QCOW_OFLAG_COPIED from a cluster pointer before freeing it. Add an explanation how thing meant to work. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r--block-qcow2.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block-qcow2.c b/block-qcow2.c
index 74a0dfa156..a984611a9a 100644
--- a/block-qcow2.c
+++ b/block-qcow2.c
@@ -903,6 +903,12 @@ static int alloc_cluster_link_l2(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t cluster_offset,
goto err;
for (i = 0; i < m->nb_clusters; i++) {
+ /* if two concurrent writes happen to the same unallocated cluster
+ * each write allocates separate cluster and writes data concurrently.
+ * The first one to complete updates l2 table with pointer to its
+ * cluster the second one has to do RMW (which is done above by
+ * copy_sectors()), update l2 table with its cluster pointer and free
+ * old cluster. This is what this loop does */
if(l2_table[l2_index + i] != 0)
old_cluster[j++] = l2_table[l2_index + i];
@@ -916,7 +922,8 @@ static int alloc_cluster_link_l2(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t cluster_offset,
goto err;
for (i = 0; i < j; i++)
- free_any_clusters(bs, be64_to_cpu(old_cluster[i]), 1);
+ free_any_clusters(bs, be64_to_cpu(old_cluster[i]) & ~QCOW_OFLAG_COPIED,
+ 1);
ret = 0;
err: