linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] xen/blkback: several fixes of resource management

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Date:   Thu, 18 May 2017 11:55:14 +1000
From:   Steven Haigh <netwiz@....id.au>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        roger.pau@...rix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] xen/blkback: several fixes of resource management

On 2017-05-16 16:23, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Destroying a Xen guest domain while it was doing I/Os via xen-blkback
> leaked several resources, including references of the guest's memory
> pages.
> 
> This patch series addresses those leaks by correcting usage of
> reference counts and the sequence when to free which resource.
> 
> The series applies on top of commit 2d4456c73a487abe ("block:
> xen-blkback: add null check to avoid null pointer dereference") in
> Jens Axboe's tree kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git
> 
> Juergen Gross (3):
>   xen/blkback: fix disconnect while I/Os in flight
>   xen/blkback: don't free be structure too early
>   xen/blkback: don't use xen_blkif_get() in xen-blkback kthread
> 
>  drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c |  3 ---
>  drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h  |  1 +
>  drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c  | 15 ++++++++-------
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@....id.au>

I've had a report that a new message is logged on destroy sometimes:
vif vif-1-0 vif1.0: Guest Rx stalled

This may be a different issue - however the main fix of this patch set 
is fully functional.

-- 
Steven Haigh

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