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[09/18] block: Set backing_hd to NULL after deleting it

Message ID 1272636040-17374-10-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com
State New
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Kevin Wolf April 30, 2010, 2 p.m. UTC 
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

It is safer to set backing_hd to NULL after deleting it so that any use
after deletion is obvious during development.  Happy segfaulting!

This patch should be applied after Kevin Wolf's "vmdk: Convert to
bdrv_open" so that vmdk does not segfault on close.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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 block.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 56835af..b318355 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -589,8 +589,10 @@  unlink_and_fail:
 void bdrv_close(BlockDriverState *bs)
 {
     if (bs->drv) {
-        if (bs->backing_hd)
+        if (bs->backing_hd) {
             bdrv_delete(bs->backing_hd);
+            bs->backing_hd = NULL;
+        }
         bs->drv->bdrv_close(bs);
         qemu_free(bs->opaque);
 #ifdef _WIN32