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edcce17b1590d0e785d303d31a7b08182a1bdb1e preallocate: Don't poll during permission updates
When the permission related BlockDriver callbacks are called, we are in
the middle of an operation traversing the block graph. Polling in such a
place is a very bad idea because the graph could change in unexpected
ways. In the future, callers will also hold the graph lock, which is
likely to turn polling into a deadlock.
So we need to get rid of calls to functions like bdrv_getlength() or
bdrv_truncate() there as these functions poll internally. They are
currently used so that when no parent has write/resize permissions on
the image any more, the preallocate filter drops the extra preallocated
area in the image file and gives up write/resize permissions itself.
In order to achieve this without polling in .bdrv_check_perm, don't
immediately truncate the image, but only schedule a BH to do so. The
filter keeps the write/resize permissions a bit longer now until the BH
has executed.
There is one case in which delaying doesn't work: Reopening the image
read-only. In this case, bs->file will likely be reopened read-only,
too, so keeping write permissions a bit longer on it doesn't work. But
we can already cover this case in preallocate_reopen_prepare() and not
rely on the permission updates for it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20230911094620.45040-4-kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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