From f3903bbac78a81fcbce1350cdce860764a62783a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Bligh Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:02:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] xen: Disable use of O_DIRECT by default as it results in crashes. Due to what is almost certainly a kernel bug, writes with O_DIRECT may continue to reference the page after the write has been marked as completed, particularly in the case of TCP retransmit. In other scenarios, this "merely" risks data corruption on the write, but with Xen pages from domU are only transiently mapped into dom0's memory, resulting in kernel panics when they are subsequently accessed. This brings PV devices in line with emulated devices. Removing O_DIRECT is safe as barrier operations are now correctly passed through. See: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-12/msg01154.html for more details. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini --- hw/xen_disk.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/xen_disk.c b/hw/xen_disk.c index 69e1d9d815..357f9c1032 100644 --- a/hw/xen_disk.c +++ b/hw/xen_disk.c @@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ static int blk_init(struct XenDevice *xendev) } /* read-only ? */ - qflags = BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB | BDRV_O_NATIVE_AIO; + qflags = BDRV_O_CACHE_WB | BDRV_O_NATIVE_AIO; if (strcmp(blkdev->mode, "w") == 0) { qflags |= BDRV_O_RDWR; } else { -- 2.39.5