block/backup: fix fleecing scheme: use serialized writes
Fleecing scheme works as follows: we want a kind of temporary snapshot of active drive A. We create temporary image B, with B->backing = A. Then we start backup(sync=none) from A to B. From this point, B reads as point-in-time snapshot of A (A continues to be active drive, accepting guest IO). This scheme needs some additional synchronization between reads from B and backup COW operations, otherwise, the following situation is theoretically possible: (assume B is qcow2, client is NBD client, reading from B) 1. client starts reading and take qcow2 mutex in qcow2_co_preadv, and goes up to l2 table loading (assume cache miss) 2) guest write => backup COW => qcow2 write => try to take qcow2 mutex => waiting 3. l2 table loaded, we see that cluster is UNALLOCATED, go to "case QCOW2_CLUSTER_UNALLOCATED" and unlock mutex before bdrv_co_preadv(bs->backing, ...) 4) aha, mutex unlocked, backup COW continues, and we finally finish guest write and change cluster in our active disk A 5. actually, do bdrv_co_preadv(bs->backing, ...) and read _new updated_ data. To avoid this, let's make backup writes serializing, to not intersect with reads from B. Note: we expand range of handled cases from (sync=none and B->backing = A) to just (A in backing chain of B), to finally allow safe reading from B during backup for all cases when A in backing chain of B, i.e. B formally looks like point-in-time snapshot of A. Signed-off-by: NVladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: NFam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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