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-rw-r--r--util/aio-posix.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/util/aio-posix.c b/util/aio-posix.c
index 280f27bb99..30f5354b1e 100644
--- a/util/aio-posix.c
+++ b/util/aio-posix.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
 #include "block/block.h"
+#include "qemu/main-loop.h"
 #include "qemu/rcu.h"
 #include "qemu/rcu_queue.h"
 #include "qemu/sockets.h"
@@ -558,8 +559,13 @@ bool aio_poll(AioContext *ctx, bool blocking)
      * There cannot be two concurrent aio_poll calls for the same AioContext (or
      * an aio_poll concurrent with a GSource prepare/check/dispatch callback).
      * We rely on this below to avoid slow locked accesses to ctx->notify_me.
+     *
+     * aio_poll() may only be called in the AioContext's thread. iohandler_ctx
+     * is special in that it runs in the main thread, but that thread's context
+     * is qemu_aio_context.
      */
-    assert(in_aio_context_home_thread(ctx));
+    assert(in_aio_context_home_thread(ctx == iohandler_get_aio_context() ?
+                                      qemu_get_aio_context() : ctx));
 
     qemu_lockcnt_inc(&ctx->list_lock);