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Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel P. Berrange
c25c18f71b Convert capabilities / domain_conf to use virArch
Convert the host capabilities and domain config structs to
use the virArch datatype. Update the parsers and all drivers
to take account of datatype change

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-12-18 16:53:03 +00:00
Gao feng
2a596dac5e add fuse support for libvirt lxc
this patch addes fuse support for libvirt lxc.
we can use fuse filesystem to generate sysinfo dynamically,
So we can isolate /proc/meminfo,cpuinfo and so on through
fuse filesystem.

we mount fuse filesystem for every container.
the mount name is libvirt,mount point is
localstatedir/run/libvirt/lxc/containername.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
2012-11-28 10:28:49 +00:00
Peter Krempa
99a388e612 lxc: Don't crash if no security driver is specified in libvirt_lxc
When no security driver is specified libvirt_lxc segfaults as a debug
message tries to access security labels for the container that are not
present.

This problem was introduced in commit 6c3cf57d6c.
2012-11-26 15:48:31 +01:00
Peter Krempa
81efb13b4a lxc: Avoid segfault of libvirt_lxc helper on early cleanup paths
Early jumps to the cleanup label caused a crash of the libvirt_lxc
container helper as the cleanup section called
virLXCControllerDeleteInterfaces(ctrl) without checking the ctrl argument
for NULL. The argument was de-referenced soon after.

$ /usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc
/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc: missing --name argument for configuration
Segmentation fault
2012-11-26 15:48:31 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
37db3f5dfe Fix exiting of libvirt_lxc program on container quit
The virLXCControllerClientCloseHook method was mistakenly
assuming that the private data associated with the network
client was the virLXCControllerPtr. In fact it was just a
dummy int, so we were derefencing a bogus struct. The
frequent result of this was that we would never quit, because
we tried to arm a non-existant timer.

Fix the code by removing the dummy private data and just
using the virLXCControllerPtr instance as private data

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-11-23 10:11:56 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
a615833664 Log an audit message with the LXC init pid
Currently the LXC driver logs audit messages when a container
is started or stopped. These audit messages, however, contain
the PID of the libvirt_lxc supervisor process. To enable
sysadmins to correlate with audit messages generated by
processes /inside/ the container, we need to include the
container init process PID.

We can't do this in the main 'start' audit message, since
the init PID is not available at that point. Instead we output
a completely new audit record, that lists both PIDs.

type=VIRT_CONTROL msg=audit(1353433750.071:363): pid=20180 uid=0 auid=501 ses=3 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='virt=lxc op=init vm="busy" uuid=dda7b947-0846-1759-2873-0f375df7d7eb vm-pid=20371 init-pid=20372 exe="/home/berrange/src/virt/libvirt/daemon/.libs/lt-libvirtd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=pts/6 res=success'

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-11-22 10:46:40 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
f33e43c235 Use virNetServerRun instead of custom main loop
The LXC controller code currently directly invokes the
libvirt main loop code. The problem is that this misses
the cleanup of virNetServerClient connections that
virNetServerRun takes care of.

The result is that when libvirtd is stopped, the
libvirt_lxc controller process gets stuck in a I/O loop.
When libvirtd is then started again, it fails to connect
to the controller and thus kills off the entire domain.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-11-22 08:51:03 +00:00
Viktor Mihajlovski
a2b3d7cff8 qemu, lxc: Change host CPU number detection logic.
The drivers for QEMU and LXC use virNodeGetInfo only to determine
the number of host CPUs. On Linux hosts nodeGetCPUCount has less
overhead.
2012-11-15 08:48:19 -07:00
Daniel P. Berrange
3782814d4a Fix uninitialized variable in virLXCControllerSetupDevPTS
The lack of initialization of 'opts' caused a SEGV in the
cleanup: path if the root->src directory did not exist
2012-11-14 15:39:48 +00:00
Daniel P. Berrange
3cfc3d7d2c Add JSON serialization of virNetServerClientPtr objects for process re-exec()
Add two new APIs virNetServerClientNewPostExecRestart and
virNetServerClientPreExecRestart which allow a virNetServerClientPtr
object to be created from a JSON object and saved to a
JSON object, for the purpose of re-exec'ing a process.

This includes serialization of the connected socket associated
with the client

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-10-16 15:45:55 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
5cbb0d37d4 Use size_t instead of int for virDomainDefPtr struct
Many parts of virDomainDefPtr were using 'int' variables as
array length counts. Replace all these with size_t and update
various format strings & API signatures to adapt

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-09-27 10:11:44 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
9467ab6074 Move virProcess{Kill,Abort,TranslateStatus} into virprocess.{c,h}
Continue consolidation of process functions by moving some
helpers out of command.{c,h} into virprocess.{c,h}

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-09-26 10:09:57 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
0fb58ef5cd Rename virPid{Abort,Wait} to virProcess{Abort,Wait}
Change "Pid" to "Process" to align with the virProcessKill
API naming prefix

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-09-26 10:09:57 +01:00
Eric Blake
4ecb723b9e maint: fix up copyright notice inconsistencies
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html recommends that
the 'If not, see <url>.' phrase be a separate sentence.

* tests/securityselinuxhelper.c: Remove doubled line.
* tests/securityselinuxtest.c: Likewise.
* globally: s/;  If/.  If/
2012-09-20 16:30:55 -06:00
Hu Tao
ee7d23ba4b use virBitmap to store cpumask info. 2012-09-17 14:59:37 -04:00
Hu Tao
75b198b3e7 use virBitmap to store numa nodemask info. 2012-09-17 14:59:37 -04:00
Hu Tao
f1a43a8e41 use virBitmap to store cpu affinity info 2012-09-17 14:59:37 -04:00
Marcelo Cerri
6c3cf57d6c Internal refactory of data structures
This patch updates the structures that store information about each
domain and each hypervisor to support multiple security labels and
drivers. It also updates all the remaining code to use the new fields.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Cerri <mhcerri@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-08-20 19:13:33 +02:00
Daniel P. Berrange
39b5e4d4d8 Refactor RPC client private data setup
Currently there is a hook function that is invoked when a
new client connection comes in, which allows an app to
setup private data. This setup will make it difficult to
serialize client state during process re-exec(). Change to
a model where the app registers a callback when creating
the virNetServerPtr instance, which is used to allocate
the client private data immediately during virNetClientPtr
construction.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-08-15 10:59:10 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
958499b0c1 Turn virNetServer* into virObject instances
Make all the virNetServer* objects use the virObject APIs
for reference counting

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-08-07 11:47:55 +01:00
Eric Blake
87de27b7f9 virrandom: make virRandomInitialize an automatic one-shot
All callers used the same initialization seed (well, the new
viratomictest forgot to look at getpid()); so we might as well
make this value automatic.  And while it may feel like we are
giving up functionality, I documented how to get it back in the
unlikely case that you actually need to debug with a fixed
pseudo-random sequence.  I left that crippled by default, so
that a stray environment variable doesn't cause a lack of
randomness to become a security issue.

* src/util/virrandom.c (virRandomInitialize): Rename...
(virRandomOnceInit): ...and make static, with one-shot call.
Document how to do fixed-seed debugging.
* src/util/virrandom.h (virRandomInitialize): Drop prototype.
* src/libvirt_private.syms (virrandom.h): Don't export it.
* src/libvirt.c (virInitialize): Adjust caller.
* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c (main): Likewise.
* src/security/virt-aa-helper.c (main): Likewise.
* src/util/iohelper.c (main): Likewise.
* tests/seclabeltest.c (main): Likewise.
* tests/testutils.c (virtTestMain): Likewise.
* tests/viratomictest.c (mymain): Likewise.
2012-08-06 08:15:13 -06:00
Daniel P. Berrange
cb612ee489 Add handling for reboots of LXC containers
The reboot() syscall is allowed by new kernels for LXC containers.
The LXC controller can detect whether a reboot was requested
(instead of a normal shutdown) by looking at the "init" process
exit status. If a reboot was triggered, the exit status will
record SIGHUP as the kill reason.

The LXC controller has cleared all its capabilities, and the
veth network devices will no longer exist at this time. Thus
it cannot restart the container init process itself. Instead
it emits an event which is picked up by the LXC driver in
libvirtd. This will then re-create the container, using the
same configuration as it was previously running with (ie it
will not activate 'newDef').

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-30 13:09:56 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
9117fcb263 Run an RPC protocol over the LXC controller monitor
This defines a new RPC protocol to be used between the LXC
controller and the libvirtd LXC driver. There is only a
single RPC message defined thus far, an asynchronous "EXIT"
event that is emitted just before the LXC controller process
exits. This provides the LXC driver with details about how
the container shutdown - normally, or abnormally (crashed),
thus allowing the driver to emit better libvirt events.

Emitting the event in the LXC controller requires a few
little tricks with the RPC service. Simply calling the
virNetServiceClientSendMessage does not work, since this
merely queues the message for asynchronous processing.
In addition the main event loop is no longer running at
the point the event is emitted, so no I/O is processed.

Thus after invoking virNetServiceClientSendMessage it is
necessary to mark the client as being in "delayed close"
mode. Then the event loop is run again, until the client
completes its close - this happens only after the queued
message has been fully transmitted. The final complexity
is that it is not safe to run virNetServerQuit() from the
client close callback, since that is invoked from a
context where the server is locked. Thus a zero-second
timer is used to trigger shutdown of the event loop,
causing the controller to finally exit.

* src/Makefile.am: Add rules for generating RPC protocol
  files and dispatch methods
* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c: Emit an RPC event immediately
  before exiting
* src/lxc/lxc_domain.h: Record the shutdown reason
  given by the controller
* src/lxc/lxc_monitor.c, src/lxc/lxc_monitor.h: Register
  RPC program and event handler. Add callback to let
  driver receive EXIT event.
* src/lxc/lxc_process.c: Use monitor exit event to decide
  what kind of domain event to emit
* src/lxc/lxc_protocol.x: Define wire protocol for LXC
  controller monitor.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-30 13:07:43 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
4343fee0a8 Replace use of lxcError with virReportError
Update all LXC code to use virReportError instead of the custom
lxcError macro

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-30 12:35:08 +01:00
Osier Yang
f9ce7dad60 Desert the FSF address in copyright
Per the FSF address could be changed from time to time, and GNU
recommends the following now: (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html)

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with Foobar.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

This patch removes the explicit FSF address, and uses above instead
(of course, with inserting 'Lesser' before 'General').

Except a bunch of files for security driver, all others are changed
automatically, the copyright for securify files are not complete,
that's why to do it manually:

  src/security/security_selinux.h
  src/security/security_driver.h
  src/security/security_selinux.c
  src/security/security_apparmor.h
  src/security/security_apparmor.c
  src/security/security_driver.c
2012-07-23 10:50:50 +08:00
Daniel P. Berrange
43e532d321 Move cgroup setup code out of lxc_controller.c
Move the cgroup setup code out of the lxc_controller.c file
and into lxc_cgroup.{c,h}. This reduces the size of the
lxc_controller.c file and paves the way to invoke cgroup
setup from lxc_driver.c instead of lxc_controller.c in the
future

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-19 16:55:00 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
97d7f02dcc Fix shutdown of LXC controller
Since we are not yet using the virNetServerPtr object for running
the event loop, we can't use virNetServerQuit(). Instead set the
global 'quit' flag in libvirt_lxc
2012-07-11 14:46:24 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
9a4d0b5170 Switch to using virNetServer APIs for monitor socket
In preparation for introducing a full RPC protocol for
libvirt_lxc, switch over to using the virNetServer APIs
for the monitor connection

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:10 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
9612e4b2e7 Move loop device setup code into virfile.{c,h}
While it is not currently used elsewhere in libvirt, the code
for finding a free loop device & associating a file with it
is not LXC specific. Move it into the viffile.{c,h} file where
potentially shared code is more commonly kept.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:10 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
f547e8768d Move cgroup objects into virLXCControllerPtr
Move the cgroup object into virLXCControllerPtr and rename
all the setup methods to include 'Cgroup' in their name
if appropriate

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:10 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
deba8b0c4c Move monitor into virLXCControllerPtr
Move the monitor FDs into the virLXCControllerPtr object
removing the need for the 'struct lxcMonitor' object

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:10 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
4c87afe0ac Move /dev/pts setup out of virLXCControllerRun
The virLXCControllerRun method is getting a little too large,
and about 50% of its code is related to setting up a /dev/pts
mount. Move the latter out into a dedicated method

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:10 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
25aa053282 Move security manager into virLXCControllerPtr object
Move the security manager object into the virLXCControllerPtr
object. Also simplify the code creating it in the first place

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:10 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
37441d89d5 Move loop device FDs into virLXCControllerPtr object
Move the list of loop device FDs into the virLXCControllerPtr
object and make sure that virLXCControllerStopInit will
close them all

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:10 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
ef07d89f1f Move daemon handshake FD into virLXCControllerPtr
Keep the FD used to handshake with the libvirtd daemon in the
virLXCControllerPtr object.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:10 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
eddca75a14 Make console handling part of virLXCControllerPtr
Turn 'struct lxc_console' into virLXCControllerConsolePtr and make it
a part of virLXCControllerPtr

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:10 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
7a4bf9c39c Store the init PID in the virLXCController object
Keep a record of the init PID in the virLXCController object
and create a virLXCControllerStopInit method for killing this
process

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:09 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
ba797c73e6 Move veth device management into virLXCControllerPtr object
Move the veth device name state into the virLXCControllerPtr
object and stop passing it around. Also use size_t instead
of unsigned int for the array length parameters.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:09 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
d624ad6a3d Introduce a virLXCControllerPtr object to hold LXC controller state
The LXC controller code is having to pass around an ever increasing
number of parameters between methods. To make the code more managable
introduce a virLXCControllerPtr to hold all this state, starting with
the container name and virDomainDefPtr object

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-07-05 10:46:09 +01:00
Jim Fehlig
57349ffc10 Initialize random generator in lxc controller
The lxc contoller eventually makes use of virRandomBits(), which was
segfaulting since virRandomInitialize() is never invoked.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff554d560 in random_r () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
0  0x00007ffff554d560 in random_r () from /lib64/libc.so.6
1  0x0000000000469eaa in virRandomBits (nbits=32) at util/virrandom.c:80
2  0x000000000045bf69 in virHashCreateFull (size=256,
    dataFree=0x4aa2a2 <hashDataFree>, keyCode=0x45bd40 <virHashStrCode>,
    keyEqual=0x45bdad <virHashStrEqual>, keyCopy=0x45bdfa <virHashStrCopy>,
    keyFree=0x45be37 <virHashStrFree>) at util/virhash.c:134
3  0x000000000045c069 in virHashCreate (size=0, dataFree=0x4aa2a2 <hashDataFree>)
    at util/virhash.c:164
4  0x00000000004aa562 in virNWFilterHashTableCreate (n=0)
    at conf/nwfilter_params.c:686
5  0x00000000004aa95b in virNWFilterParseParamAttributes (cur=0x711d30)
    at conf/nwfilter_params.c:793
6  0x0000000000481a7f in virDomainNetDefParseXML (caps=0x702c90, node=0x7116b0,
    ctxt=0x7101b0, bootMap=0x0, flags=0) at conf/domain_conf.c:4589
7  0x000000000048cc36 in virDomainDefParseXML (caps=0x702c90, xml=0x710040,
    root=0x7103b0, ctxt=0x7101b0, expectedVirtTypes=16, flags=0)
    at conf/domain_conf.c:8658
8  0x000000000048f011 in virDomainDefParseNode (caps=0x702c90, xml=0x710040,
    root=0x7103b0, expectedVirtTypes=16, flags=0) at conf/domain_conf.c:9360
9  0x000000000048ee30 in virDomainDefParse (xmlStr=0x0,
    filename=0x702ae0 "/var/run/libvirt/lxc/x.xml", caps=0x702c90,
    expectedVirtTypes=16, flags=0) at conf/domain_conf.c:9310
10 0x000000000048ef00 in virDomainDefParseFile (caps=0x702c90,
    filename=0x702ae0 "/var/run/libvirt/lxc/x.xml", expectedVirtTypes=16, flags=0)
    at conf/domain_conf.c:9332
11 0x0000000000425053 in main (argc=5, argv=0x7fffffffe2b8)
    at lxc/lxc_controller.c:1773
2012-06-20 23:28:09 -06:00
Daniel Walsh
8dd5794f81 Convert the LXC driver to use the security driver API for mount options
Instead of hardcoding use of SELinux contexts in the LXC driver,
switch over to using the official security driver API.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-05-16 10:05:47 +01:00
Daniel Walsh
73580c60d1 Pass the virt driver name into security drivers
To allow the security drivers to apply different configuration
information per hypervisor, pass the virtualization driver name
into the security manager constructor.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-05-16 10:05:46 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
43ee987312 Ensure logging is initialized early in libvirt_lxc
The virLogSetFromEnv call was done too late in startup to
catch many log messages (eg from security driver initialization).
To assist debugging also explicitly log the security details
at startup
2012-05-01 16:05:02 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
eb06375a84 Ensure libvirt_lxc process loads the live XML config
Currently the libvirt_lxc process uses VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE
when loading the XML for the container. This means it loses
any dynamic data such as the, just allocated, SELinux label.

Further there is an inconsistency in the libvirt LXC driver
whereby it saves the live config XML and then later overwrites
the file with the live status XML instead. Add a comment about
this for future reference.

* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c: Remove VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INACTIVE
  when loading XML
* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c: Add comment about inconsistent
  config file formats

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
2012-05-01 16:05:02 +01:00
Stefan Berger
f74471de4f lxc: Fix coverity findings
Error: UNINIT:
/libvirt/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c:1412:
var_decl: Declaring variable "fd" without initializer.
/libvirt/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c:1460:
uninit_use_in_call: Using uninitialized value "fd" when calling "virFileClose".
/libvirt/src/util/virfile.c:50:
read_parm: Reading a parameter value.

Error: DEADCODE:
/libvirt/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c:960:
dead_error_condition: On this path, the condition "ret == 4" cannot be true.
/libvirt/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c:959:
at_most: After this line, the value of "ret" is at most -1.
/libvirt/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c:959:
new_values: Noticing condition "ret < 0".
/libvirt/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c:961:
dead_error_line: Execution cannot reach this statement "continue;".

Error: UNINIT:
/libvirt/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c:1104:
var_decl: Declaring variable "consoles" without initializer.
/libvirt/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c:1237:
uninit_use: Using uninitialized value "consoles".
2012-04-27 14:39:17 -04:00
Daniel Veillard
dd39f13af0 Fix a few typo in translated strings
this was raised by our hindi localization team
chandan kumar <chandankumar.093047@gmail.com>
2012-03-12 17:41:26 +08:00
Martin Kletzander
32f881c6c4 Fixed connection definition for non-SELinux builds
This patch fixes the access of variable "con" in two files where the
variable was declared only on SELinux builds and thus the build failed
without SELinux. It's a rather nasty fix but helps fix the build
quickly and without any major changes to the code.
2012-02-03 16:13:45 +01:00
Daniel P. Berrange
5df67cdcd3 Set a security context on /dev and /dev/pts mounts
To allow the container to access /dev and /dev/pts when under
sVirt, set an explicit mount option. Also set a max size on
the /dev mount to prevent DOS on memory usage

* src/lxc/lxc_container.c: Set /dev mount context
* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c: Set /dev/pts mount context
2012-02-02 17:45:19 -07:00
Daniel P. Berrange
0f01192e7e Add support for sVirt in the LXC driver
For the sake of backwards compat, LXC guests are *not*
confined by default. This is because it is not practical
to dynamically relabel containers using large filesystem
trees. Applications can create confined containers though,
by giving suitable XML configs

* src/Makefile.am: Link libvirt_lxc to security drivers
* src/lxc/libvirtd_lxc.aug, src/lxc/lxc_conf.h,
  src/lxc/lxc_conf.c, src/lxc/lxc.conf,
  src/lxc/test_libvirtd_lxc.aug: Config file handling for
  security driver
* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c: Wire up security driver functions
* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c: Add a '--security' flag to
  specify which security driver to activate
* src/lxc/lxc_container.c, src/lxc/lxc_container.h: Set
  the process label just before exec'ing init.
2012-02-02 17:44:39 -07:00
Daniel P. Berrange
9130396214 Re-write LXC controller end-of-file I/O handling yet again
Currently the LXC controller attempts to deal with EOF on a
tty by spawning a thread to do an edge triggered epoll_wait().
This avoids the normal event loop spinning on POLLHUP. There
is a subtle mistake though - even after seeing POLLHUP on a
master PTY, it is still perfectly possible & valid to write
data to the PTY. There is a buffer that can be filled with
data, even when no client is present.

The second mistake is that the epoll_wait() thread was not
looking for the EPOLLOUT condition, so when a new client
connects to the LXC console, it had to explicitly send a
character before any queued output would appear.

Finally, there was in fact no need to spawn a new thread to
deal with epoll_wait(). The epoll file descriptor itself
can be poll()'d on normally.

This patch attempts to deal with all these problems.

 - The blocking epoll_wait() thread is replaced by a poll
   on the epoll file descriptor which then does a non-blocking
   epoll_wait() to handle events
 - Even if POLLHUP is seen, we continue trying to write
   any pending output until getting EAGAIN from write.
 - Once write returns EAGAIN, we modify the epoll event
   mask to also look for EPOLLOUT

* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c: Avoid stalled I/O upon
  connected to an LXC console
2012-01-12 20:42:52 +00:00