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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2016-09-07 11:51:25 -0400
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2016-09-09 20:58:34 +0300
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virtio: zero vq->inuse in virtio_reset()
vq->inuse must be zeroed upon device reset like most other virtqueue
fields.

In theory, virtio_reset() just needs assert(vq->inuse == 0) since
devices must clean up in-flight requests during reset (requests cannot
not be leaked!).

In practice, it is difficult to achieve vq->inuse == 0 across reset
because balloon, blk, 9p, etc implement various different strategies for
cleaning up requests.  Most devices call g_free(elem) directly without
telling virtio.c that the VirtQueueElement is cleaned up.  Therefore
vq->inuse is not decremented during reset.

This patch zeroes vq->inuse and trusts that devices are not leaking
VirtQueueElements across reset.

I will send a follow-up series that refactors request life-cycle across
all devices and converts vq->inuse = 0 into assert(vq->inuse == 0) but
this more invasive approach is not appropriate for stable trees.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-stable <qemu-stable@nongnu.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ladi Prosek <lprosek@redhat.com>
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