Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] xen/blkback: several fixes of resource management

From: Steven Haigh
Date: Wed Jun 07 2017 - 08:37:11 EST


On Friday, 19 May 2017 1:28:46 AM AEST 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
>
> V2: changed flag to type bool in patch 1 (Dietmar Hahn)
>
> 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(-)

Just wanted to give this a bit of a prod.

Is there any plans in having this hit the kernel.org kernels?

My testing was purely on kernel 4.9 branch - but it doesn't look like this has
shown up there yet?

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