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Re: [PATCH] nbd: Fix regression with multiple meta contexts
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Laurent Vivier |
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Re: [PATCH] nbd: Fix regression with multiple meta contexts |
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Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:24:15 +0100 |
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Le 06/02/2020 à 18:38, Eric Blake a écrit :
> Detected by a hang in the libnbd testsuite. If a client requests
> multiple meta contexts (both base:allocation and qemu:dirty-bitmap:x)
> at the same time, our attempt to silence a false-positive warning
> about a potential uninitialized variable introduced botched logic: we
> were short-circuiting the second context, and never sending the
> NBD_REPLY_FLAG_DONE. Combining two 'if' into one 'if/else' in
> bdf200a55 was wrong (I'm a bit embarrassed that such a change was my
> initial suggestion after the v1 patch, then I did not review the v2
> patch that actually got committed). Revert that, and instead silence
> the false positive warning by replacing 'return ret' with 'return 0'
> (the value it always has at that point in the code, even though it
> eluded the deduction abilities of the robot that reported the false
> positive).
>
> Fixes: bdf200a5535
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> ---
>
> It's never fun when a regression is caused by a patch taken through
> qemu-trivial, proving that the patch was not trivial after all.
Do you want this one be merged using the trivial branch?
Thanks,
Laurent