For non-local storage drivers we can't expect to use the "scrub" tool to
wipe the volume. Split the code into a separate backend function so that
we can add protocol specific code later.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118710
For non-local storage drivers we can't expect to use the FDStream
backend for up/downloading volumes. Split the code into a separate
backend function so that we can add protocol specific code later.
The VIR_ENUM_DECL/VIR_ENUM_IMPL helper macros already append 'Type'
to the enum name being converted; it looks silly to have functions
with 'TypeType' in their name. Even though some of our enums have
to have a 'Type' suffix, the corresponding string conversion
functions do not.
* src/conf/secret_conf.h (VIR_ENUM_DECL): Rename virSecretUsageType.
* src/conf/storage_conf.h (VIR_ENUM_DECL): Rename
virStoragePoolAuthType, virStoragePoolSourceAdapterType,
virStoragePartedFsType.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDiskDefParseXML)
(virDomainFSDefParseXML, virDomainFSDefFormat): Update callers.
* src/conf/secret_conf.c (virSecretDefParseUsage)
(virSecretDefFormatUsage): Likewise.
* src/conf/storage_conf.c (virStoragePoolDefParseAuth)
(virStoragePoolDefParseSource, virStoragePoolSourceFormat):
Likewise.
* src/lxc/lxc_controller.c (virLXCControllerSetupLoopDevices):
Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
(virStorageBackendDiskPartFormat): Likewise.
* src/util/virstorageencryption.c (virStorageEncryptionSecretParse)
(virStorageEncryptionSecretFormat): Likewise.
* tools/virsh-secret.c (cmdSecretList): Likewise.
* src/libvirt_private.syms (secret_conf.h, storage_conf.h): Export
corrected names.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Commit id 'ac9a0963' refactored out the 'withCapacity' for the
virStorageBackendUpdateVolInfo() API. See:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-April/msg00043.html
This resulted in a difference in how 'virsh vol-info --pool <poolName>
<volume>' or 'virsh vol-list vol-list --pool <poolName> --details' outputs
the capacity information for a directory pool with a qcow2 sparse file.
For example, using the following XML
mkdir /home/TestPool
cat testpool.xml
<pool type='dir'>
<name>TestPool</name>
<uuid>6bf80895-10b6-75a6-6059-89fdea2aefb7</uuid>
<source>
</source>
<target>
<path>/home/TestPool</path>
<permissions>
<mode>0755</mode>
<owner>0</owner>
<group>0</group>
</permissions>
</target>
</pool>
virsh pool-create testpool.xml
virsh vol-create-as --pool TestPool temp_vol_1 \
--capacity 1048576 --allocation 1048576 --format qcow2
virsh vol-info --pool TestPool temp_vol_1
Results in listing a Capacity value. Prior to the commit, the value would
be '1.0 MiB' (1048576 bytes). However, after the commit the output would be
(for example) '192.50 KiB', which for my system was the size of the volume
in my file system (eg 'ls -l TestPool/temp_vol_1' results in '197120' bytes
or 192.50 KiB). While perhaps technically correct, it's not necessarily
what the user expected (certainly virt-test didn't expect it).
This patch restores the code to not update the target capacity for this path
Instead of hardcoding LIBEXECDIR as the location of the libvirt_parthelper
binary, use virFileFindResource to optionally find it in the current
build directory.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Now that each virStorageSource can track allocation information,
and given that we already have the information without extra
syscalls, it's easier to just always populate the information
directly into the struct than it is to sometimes pass the address
of the struct members down the call chain.
* src/storage/storage_backend.h (virStorageBackendUpdateVolInfo)
(virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfo)
(virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfoFD): Update signature.
* src/storage/storage_backend.c (virStorageBackendUpdateVolInfo)
(virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfo)
(virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfoFD): Always populate struct
members instead.
* src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
(virStorageBackendDiskMakeDataVol): Update client.
* src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c (virStorageBackendProbeTarget)
(virStorageBackendFileSystemRefresh)
(virStorageBackendFileSystemVolRefresh): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_gluster.c
(virStorageBackendGlusterRefreshVol): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c
(virStorageBackendLogicalMakeVol): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_mpath.c
(virStorageBackendMpathNewVol): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_scsi.c
(virStorageBackendSCSINewLun): Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
One of the features of qcow2 is that a wrapper file can have
more capacity than its backing file from the guest's perspective;
what's more, sparse files make tracking allocation of both
the active and backing file worthwhile. As such, it makes
more sense to show allocation numbers for each file in a chain,
and not just the top-level file. This sets up the fields for
the tracking, although it does not modify XML to display any
new information.
* src/util/virstoragefile.h (_virStorageSource): Add fields.
* src/conf/storage_conf.h (_virStorageVolDef): Drop redundant
fields.
* src/storage/storage_backend.c (virStorageBackendCreateBlockFrom)
(createRawFile, virStorageBackendCreateQemuImgCmd)
(virStorageBackendCreateQcowCreate): Update clients.
* src/storage/storage_driver.c (storageVolDelete)
(storageVolCreateXML, storageVolCreateXMLFrom, storageVolResize)
(storageVolWipeInternal, storageVolGetInfo): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c (virStorageBackendProbeTarget)
(virStorageBackendFileSystemRefresh)
(virStorageBackendFileSystemVolResize)
(virStorageBackendFileSystemVolRefresh): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c
(virStorageBackendLogicalMakeVol)
(virStorageBackendLogicalCreateVol): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_scsi.c
(virStorageBackendSCSINewLun): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_mpath.c
(virStorageBackendMpathNewVol): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_rbd.c
(volStorageBackendRBDRefreshVolInfo)
(virStorageBackendRBDCreateImage): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
(virStorageBackendDiskMakeDataVol)
(virStorageBackendDiskCreateVol): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_sheepdog.c
(virStorageBackendSheepdogBuildVol)
(virStorageBackendSheepdogParseVdiList): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_gluster.c
(virStorageBackendGlusterRefreshVol): Likewise.
* src/conf/storage_conf.c (virStorageVolDefFormat)
(virStorageVolDefParseXML): Likewise.
* src/test/test_driver.c (testOpenVolumesForPool)
(testStorageVolCreateXML, testStorageVolCreateXMLFrom)
(testStorageVolDelete, testStorageVolGetInfo): Likewise.
* src/esx/esx_storage_backend_iscsi.c (esxStorageVolGetXMLDesc):
Likewise.
* src/esx/esx_storage_backend_vmfs.c (esxStorageVolGetXMLDesc)
(esxStorageVolCreateXML): Likewise.
* src/parallels/parallels_driver.c (parallelsAddHddByVolume):
Likewise.
* src/parallels/parallels_storage.c (parallelsDiskDescParseNode)
(parallelsStorageVolDefineXML, parallelsStorageVolCreateXMLFrom)
(parallelsStorageVolDefRemove, parallelsStorageVolGetInfo):
Likewise.
* src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c (vboxStorageVolCreateXML)
(vboxStorageVolGetXMLDesc): Likewise.
* tests/storagebackendsheepdogtest.c (test_vdi_list_parser):
Likewise.
* src/phyp/phyp_driver.c (phypStorageVolCreateXML): Likewise.
Some preparatory work before consolidating storage volume
structs with the rest of virstoragefile. Making these
changes allows a volume target to be much closer to (a
subset of) the virStorageSource struct.
Making perms be a pointer allows it to be optional if we
have a storage pool that doesn't expose permissions in a
way we can access. It also allows future patches to
optionally expose permissions details learned about a disk
image via domain <disk> listings, rather than just
limiting it to storage volume listings.
Disk partition types was only used by internal code to
control what type of partition to create when carving up
an MS-DOS partition table storage pool (and is not used
for GPT partition tables or other storage pools). It was
not exposed in volume XML, and as it is more closely
related to extent information of the overall block device
than it is to the <target> information describing the host
file. Besides, if we ever decide to expose it in XML down
the road, we can move it back as needed.
* src/conf/storage_conf.h (_virStorageVolTarget): Change perms to
pointer, enhance comments. Move partition type...
(_virStorageVolSource): ...here.
* src/conf/storage_conf.c (virStorageVolDefFree)
(virStorageVolDefParseXML, virStorageVolTargetDefFormat): Update
clients.
* src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c (createFileDir): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend.c (virStorageBackendCreateBlockFrom)
(virStorageBackendCreateRaw, virStorageBackendCreateExecCommand)
(virStorageBackendUpdateVolTargetInfoFD): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c
(virStorageBackendLogicalCreateVol): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
(virStorageBackendDiskMakeDataVol)
(virStorageBackendDiskPartTypeToCreate): Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Noticed during my work on storage struct cleanups.
* src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
(virStorageBackendDiskPartBoundaries): Fix spelling errors.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Any source file which calls the logging APIs now needs
to have a VIR_LOG_INIT("source.name") declaration at
the start of the file. This provides a static variable
of the virLogSource type.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
From commit id 'd53bbfd1'
Found one core and one possible memory leak. Core seen during local
virt-test/tp_libvirt run for the vol_create_from test. The memory leak
was seen by inspection during a review of all VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT changes
In storage_backend_disk/virStorageBackendDiskMakeDataVol(), the 'vol'
needs to be kept around since it's used later, so use the _COPY macro.
This caused a segv in libvirtd:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffe87c3700 (LWP 6919)]
virStorageBackendDiskMakeDataVol (vol=0x0, groups=0x7fffc8000d70, pool=0x7fffc8002460) at storage/storage_backend_disk.c:66
66 if (vol->target.path == NULL) {
In storage_backend_rbd/virStorageBackendRBDRefreshPool() there's a failure
path where the 'vol' needs to go through virStorageVolDefFree() since it
wouldn't be appended.
This reverts commit 67ccf91bf2.
We only generate the volume key after we've built it, but the storage
driver expects it to be filled after createVol finishes.
Squash the volume building back with creating to fulfill this
expectation.
Kill the use of atoi() and introduce syntax check to forbid it and it's
friends (atol, atoll, atof, atoq).
Also fix a typo in variable name holding the cylinders count of a disk
pool (apparently unused).
examples/domsuspend/suspend.c will need a larger scale refactor as the
whole example file is broken thus it will be exempted from the syntax
check for now.
Convert the type of loop iterators named 'i', 'j', k',
'ii', 'jj', 'kk', to be 'size_t' instead of 'int' or
'unsigned int', also santizing 'ii', 'jj', 'kk' to use
the normal 'i', 'j', 'k' naming
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
These all existed before virfile.c was created, and for some reason
weren't moved.
This is mostly straightfoward, although the syntax rule prohibiting
write() had to be changed to have an exception for virfile.c instead
of virutil.c.
This movement pointed out that there is a function called
virBuildPath(), and another almost identical function called
virFileBuildPath(). They really should be a single function, which
I'll take care of as soon as I figure out what the arglist should look
like.
The source code base needs to be adapted as well. Some files
include virutil.h just for the string related functions (here,
the include is substituted to match the new file), some include
virutil.h without any need (here, the include is removed), and
some require both.
POSIX says that both basename() and dirname() may return static
storage (aka they need not be thread-safe); and that they may but
not must modify their input argument. Furthermore, <libgen.h>
is not available on all platforms. For these reasons, you should
never use these functions in a multi-threaded library.
Gnulib instead recommends a way to avoid the portability nightmare:
gnulib's "dirname.h" provides useful thread-safe counterparts. The
obvious dir_name() and base_name() are GPL (because they malloc(),
but call exit() on failure) so we can't use them; but the LGPL
variants mdir_name() (malloc's or returns NULL) and last_component
(always points into the incoming string without modifying it,
differing from basename semantics only on corner cases like the
empty string that we shouldn't be hitting in the first place) are
already in use in libvirt. This finishes the swap over to the safe
functions.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_libgen): New rule.
* src/util/vircgroup.c: Fix offenders.
* src/parallels/parallels_storage.c (parallelsPoolAddByDomain):
Likewise.
* src/parallels/parallels_network.c (parallelsGetBridgedNetInfo):
Likewise.
* src/node_device/node_device_udev.c (udevProcessSCSIHost)
(udevProcessSCSIDevice): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
(virStorageBackendDiskDeleteVol): Likewise.
* src/util/virpci.c (virPCIGetDeviceAddressFromSysfsLink):
Likewise.
* src/util/virstoragefile.h (_virStorageFileMetadata): Avoid false
positive.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The libvirt coding standard is to use 'function(...args...)'
instead of 'function (...args...)'. A non-trivial number of
places did not follow this rule and are fixed in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
virStorageVolLookupByPath is an API call that virt-manager uses
quite a bit when dealing with storage. This call use BackendStablePath
which has several usleep() heuristics that can be tripped up
and hang virt-manager for a while.
Current example: an empty mpath pool pointing to /dev/mapper makes
_any_ calls to virStorageVolLookupByPath take 5 seconds.
The sleep heuristics are actually only needed in certain cases
when we are waiting for new storage to appear, so let's skip the
timeout steps when calling from LookupByPath.
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/
Any time we have a string with no % passed through gettext, a
translator can inject a % to cause a stack overread. When there
is nothing to format, it's easier to ask for a string that cannot
be used as a formatter, by using a trivial "%s" format instead.
In the past, we have used --disable-nls to catch some of the
offenders, but that doesn't get run very often, and many more
uses have crept in. Syntax check to the rescue!
The syntax check can catch uses such as
virReportError(code,
_("split "
"string"));
by using a sed script to fold context lines into one pattern
space before checking for a string without %.
This patch is just mechanical insertion of %s; there are probably
several messages touched by this patch where we would be better
off giving the user more information than a fixed string.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_diagnostic_without_format): New rule.
* src/datatypes.c (virUnrefConnect, virGetDomain)
(virUnrefDomain, virGetNetwork, virUnrefNetwork, virGetInterface)
(virUnrefInterface, virGetStoragePool, virUnrefStoragePool)
(virGetStorageVol, virUnrefStorageVol, virGetNodeDevice)
(virGetSecret, virUnrefSecret, virGetNWFilter, virUnrefNWFilter)
(virGetDomainSnapshot, virUnrefDomainSnapshot): Add %s wrapper.
* src/lxc/lxc_driver.c (lxcDomainSetBlkioParameters)
(lxcDomainGetBlkioParameters): Likewise.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virSecurityDeviceLabelDefParseXML)
(virDomainDiskDefParseXML, virDomainGraphicsDefParseXML):
Likewise.
* src/conf/network_conf.c (virNetworkDNSHostsDefParseXML)
(virNetworkDefParseXML): Likewise.
* src/conf/nwfilter_conf.c (virNWFilterIsValidChainName):
Likewise.
* src/conf/nwfilter_params.c (virNWFilterVarValueCreateSimple)
(virNWFilterVarAccessParse): Likewise.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainSave, virDomainSaveFlags)
(virDomainRestore, virDomainRestoreFlags)
(virDomainSaveImageGetXMLDesc, virDomainSaveImageDefineXML)
(virDomainCoreDump, virDomainGetXMLDesc)
(virDomainMigrateVersion1, virDomainMigrateVersion2)
(virDomainMigrateVersion3, virDomainMigrate, virDomainMigrate2)
(virStreamSendAll, virStreamRecvAll)
(virDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc): Likewise.
* src/nwfilter/nwfilter_dhcpsnoop.c (virNWFilterSnoopReqLeaseDel)
(virNWFilterDHCPSnoopReq): Likewise.
* src/openvz/openvz_driver.c (openvzUpdateDevice): Likewise.
* src/openvz/openvz_util.c (openvzKBPerPages): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c (qemuSetupCgroup): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c (qemuBuildHubDevStr, qemuBuildChrChardevStr)
(qemuBuildCommandLine): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainGetPercpuStats): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c (qemuDomainAttachNetDevice): Likewise.
* src/rpc/virnetsaslcontext.c (virNetSASLSessionGetIdentity):
Likewise.
* src/rpc/virnetsocket.c (virNetSocketNewConnectUNIX)
(virNetSocketSendFD, virNetSocketRecvFD): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
(virStorageBackendDiskBuildPool): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c
(virStorageBackendFileSystemProbe)
(virStorageBackendFileSystemBuild): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_rbd.c
(virStorageBackendRBDOpenRADOSConn): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_driver.c (storageVolumeResize): Likewise.
* src/test/test_driver.c (testInterfaceChangeBegin)
(testInterfaceChangeCommit, testInterfaceChangeRollback):
Likewise.
* src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c (vboxListAllDomains): Likewise.
* src/xenxs/xen_sxpr.c (xenFormatSxprDisk, xenFormatSxpr):
Likewise.
* src/xenxs/xen_xm.c (xenXMConfigGetUUID, xenFormatXMDisk)
(xenFormatXM): Likewise.
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
Update the storage driver to use virReportError instead of
the virStorageReportError custom macro
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
To make it easier to dynamically change the command line ARGV,
switch all storage code over to use virCommandPtr APIs for
running programs
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
which would blow away all volumes. Honor VIR_STORAGE_POOL_BUILD_OVERWRITE
to force a rebuild.
This was caught by libvirt-tck's storage/110-disk-pool.t.
Done mechanically with:
$ git grep -l '\bDEBUG0\? *(' | xargs -L1 sed -i 's/\bDEBUG0\? *(/VIR_&/'
followed by manual deletion of qemudDebug in daemon/libvirtd.c, along
with a single 'make syntax-check' fallout in the same file, and the
actual deletion in src/util/logging.h.
* src/util/logging.h (DEBUG, DEBUG0): Delete.
* daemon/libvirtd.h (qemudDebug): Likewise.
* global: Change remaining clients over to VIR_DEBUG counterpart.
The name convention of device mapper disk is different, and 'parted'
can't be used to delete a device mapper disk partition. e.g.
Name Path
-----------------------------------------
3600a0b80005ad1d7000093604cae912fp1 /dev/mapper/3600a0b80005ad1d7000093604cae912fp1
Error: Expecting a partition number.
This patch introduces 'dmsetup' to fix it.
Changes:
- New function "virIsDevMapperDevice" in "src/utils/utils.c"
- remove "is_dm_device" in "src/storage/parthelper.c", use
"virIsDevMapperDevice" instead.
- Requires "device-mapper" for 'with-storage-disk" in "libvirt.spec.in"
- Check "dmsetup" in 'configure.ac' for "with-storage-disk"
- Changes on "src/Makefile.am" to link against libdevmapper
- New entry for "virIsDevMapperDevice" in "src/libvirt_private.syms"
Changes from v1 to v3:
- s/virIsDeviceMapperDevice/virIsDevMapperDevice/g
- replace "virRun" with "virCommand"
- sort the list of util functions in "libvirt_private.syms"
- ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(1) for virIsDevMapperDevice declaration.
e.g.
Name Path
-----------------------------------------
3600a0b80005ad1d7000093604cae912fp1 /dev/mapper/3600a0b80005ad1d7000093604cae912fp1
Vol /dev/mapper/3600a0b80005ad1d7000093604cae912fp1 deleted
Name Path
-----------------------------------------
virFileResolveLink was returning a positive value on error,
thus confusing callers that assumed failure was < 0. The
confusion is further evidenced by callers that would have
ended up calling virReportSystemError with a negative value
instead of a valid errno.
Fixes Red Hat BZ #591363.
* src/util/util.c (virFileResolveLink): Live up to documentation.
* src/qemu/qemu_security_dac.c
(qemuSecurityDACRestoreSecurityFileLabel): Adjust callers.
* src/security/security_selinux.c
(SELinuxRestoreSecurityFileLabel): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
(virStorageBackendDiskDeleteVol): Likewise.
The virConnectPtr is no longer required for error reporting since
that is recorded in a thread local. Remove use of virConnectPtr
from all APIs in storage_conf.{h,c} and storage_encryption_conf.{h,c}
and update all callers to match
In order to avoid problems trying to chown files that were created by
root on a root-squashing nfs server, fork a new process that setuid's
to the desired uid before creating the file. (It's only done this way
if the pool containing the new volume is of type 'netfs', otherwise
the old method of creating the file followed by chown() is used.)
This changes the semantics of the "create_func" slightly - previously
it was assumed that this function just created the file, then the
caller would chown it to the desired uid. Now, create_func does both
operations.
There are multiple functions that can take on the role of create_func:
createFileDir - previously called mkdir(), now calls virDirCreate().
virStorageBackendCreateRaw - previously called open(),
now calls virFileCreate().
virStorageBackendCreateQemuImg - use virRunWithHook() to setuid/gid.
virStorageBackendCreateQcowCreate - same.
virStorageBackendCreateBlockFrom - preserve old behavior (but attempt
chown when necessary even if not root)
* src/storage/storage_backend.[ch] src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c
src/storage/storage_driver.c: change the create_func implementations,
also propagate the pool information to be able to detect NETFS ones.
* src/libvirt.c src/lxc/lxc_conf.c src/lxc/lxc_container.c
src/lxc/lxc_controller.c src/node_device/node_device_hal.c
src/openvz/openvz_conf.c src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c src/remote/remote_driver.c
src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c src/storage/storage_driver.c
src/util/logging.c src/xen/sexpr.c src/xen/xend_internal.c
src/xen/xm_internal.c: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> sent a code
review and those are the fixes correcting the problems