Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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Matthias Bolte 08d42b52f1 Add several missing vir*Free calls in libvirtd's remote code
Justin Clift reported a problem with adding virStoragePoolIsPersistent
to virsh's pool-info command, resulting in a strange problem. Here's
an example:

    virsh # pool-create-as images_dir3 dir - - - - "/home/images2"
    Pool images_dir3 created

    virsh # pool-info images_dir3
    Name:           images_dir3
    UUID:           90301885-94eb-4ca7-14c2-f30b25a29a36
    State:          running
    Capacity:       395.20 GB
    Allocation:     30.88 GB
    Available:      364.33 GB

    virsh # pool-destroy images_dir3
    Pool images_dir3 destroyed

At this point the images_dir3 pool should be gone (because it was
transient) and we should be able to create a new pool with the same name:

    virsh # pool-create-as images_dir3 dir - - - - "/home/images2"
    Pool images_dir3 created

    virsh # pool-info images_dir3
    Name:           images_dir3
    UUID:           90301885-94eb-4ca7-14c2-f30b25a29a36
    error: Storage pool not found

The new pool got the same UUID as the first one, but we didn't specify
one. libvirt should have picked a random UUID, but it didn't.

It turned out that virStoragePoolIsPersistent leaks a reference to the
storage pool object (actually remoteDispatchStoragePoolIsPersistent does).
As a result, pool-destroy doesn't remove the virStoragePool for the
"images_dir3" pool from the virConnectPtr's storagePools hash on libvirtd's
side. Then the second pool-create-as get's the stale virStoragePool object
associated with the "images_dir3" name. But this object has the old UUID.

This commit ensures that all get_nonnull_* and make_nonnull_* calls for
libvirt objects are matched properly with vir*Free calls. This fixes the
reference leaks and the reported problem.

All remoteDispatch*IsActive and remoteDispatch*IsPersistent functions were
affected. But also remoteDispatchDomainMigrateFinish2 was affected in the
success path. I wonder why that didn't surface earlier. Probably because
domainMigrateFinish2 is executed on the destination host and in the common
case this connection is opened especially for the migration and gets closed
after the migration is done. So there was no chance to run into a problem
because of the leaked reference.
2010-06-16 23:06:12 +02:00
.gnulib@1629006348 build: fix some mingw issues 2010-06-10 06:05:31 -06:00
build-aux build: update gnulib 2010-03-26 19:16:37 +01:00
daemon Add several missing vir*Free calls in libvirtd's remote code 2010-06-16 23:06:12 +02:00
docs maint: simplify some ignore files 2010-06-15 07:31:10 -06:00
examples maint: simplify some ignore files 2010-06-15 07:31:10 -06:00
include libvirt: introduce domainCreateWithFlags API 2010-06-15 07:32:41 -06:00
m4 build: don't use "test cond1 -o cond2": it's not portable 2010-03-25 09:28:24 +01:00
po esx: Add read-only storage pool access 2010-05-26 12:01:27 +02:00
proxy build: fix up some compiler flags 2010-05-17 09:12:42 -06:00
python maint: simplify some ignore files 2010-06-15 07:31:10 -06:00
src esx: Accept 'disk' as harddisk device type in .vmx files 2010-06-16 23:06:12 +02:00
tests esx: Update case insensitive .vmx tests 2010-06-16 23:06:12 +02:00
tools virsh: mark autostart answers for translation 2010-06-15 15:36:27 -06:00
.gitignore build: distribute missing file 2010-05-19 16:28:49 -06:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap avoid syntax-check failure 2010-06-06 10:27:28 +02:00
.x-sc_avoid_ctype_macros exempt gnulib from ctype-macros prohibition 2008-10-28 17:36:31 +00:00
.x-sc_avoid_if_before_free avoid a "make syntax-check" failure 2009-07-09 20:00:37 +02:00
.x-sc_avoid_write Fully asynchronous monitor I/O processing 2009-11-10 13:27:18 +00:00
.x-sc_m4_quote_check syntax-check: enable more checks 2009-02-03 13:08:36 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_always_true_header_tests build: update gnulib 2010-05-06 14:35:38 -06:00
.x-sc_prohibit_asprintf add .x-sc_prohibit_asprintf 2008-12-23 13:40:42 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_gethostby Various syntax-check fixes. 2009-10-26 10:34:05 +01:00
.x-sc_prohibit_gethostname Add a new syntax-check rule for gethostname. 2009-10-26 10:34:27 +01:00
.x-sc_prohibit_gettext_noop build: fix syntax-check problems 2010-04-12 16:43:05 -06:00
.x-sc_prohibit_have_config_h maint: sync from coreutils 2009-01-29 18:06:19 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_HAVE_MBRTOWC maint: sync from coreutils 2009-01-29 18:06:19 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_nonreentrant Tighten up nonreentrant syntax-check. 2009-10-26 10:33:42 +01:00
.x-sc_prohibit_readlink Add a rule to check for uses of readlink. 2010-01-22 09:42:35 -05:00
.x-sc_prohibit_strcmp exempt gnulib/ from "make syntax-check" strcmp prohibition 2008-05-14 21:18:27 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_strcmp_and_strncmp Ignore docs/ directory for strcmp() syntax check 2009-11-23 11:58:13 +00:00
.x-sc_prohibit_strncpy Various syntax-check fixes. 2009-10-26 10:34:05 +01:00
.x-sc_prohibit_test_minus_ao build: fix syntax-check problems 2010-04-12 16:43:05 -06:00
.x-sc_prohibit_VIR_ERR_NO_MEMORY Various syntax-check fixes. 2009-10-26 10:34:05 +01:00
.x-sc_require_config_h Various syntax-check fixes. 2009-10-26 10:34:05 +01:00
.x-sc_require_config_h_first Misc syntax-check fixes 2009-09-21 14:41:47 +01:00
.x-sc_trailing_blank build: exempt *.ico files from the trailing blank check 2008-10-16 13:28:07 +00:00
.x-sc_unmarked_diagnostics build: import latest gnulib 2010-04-02 10:18:55 -06:00
acinclude.m4 build: fix up some compiler flags 2010-05-17 09:12:42 -06:00
AUTHORS Trivial virsh.pod additions --all for "list" command and similar 2010-06-01 16:46:51 -06:00
autobuild.sh autobuild.sh: avoid bashism 2010-06-04 10:03:52 -06:00
autogen.sh build: improve check for out-of-date .gnulib submodule 2010-04-02 15:49:32 -06:00
bootstrap build: fix some mingw issues 2010-06-10 06:05:31 -06:00
bootstrap.conf build: fix some mingw issues 2010-06-10 06:05:31 -06:00
cfg.mk build: fix VPATH 'make syntax-check' 2010-06-01 16:34:25 -06:00
ChangeLog-old generate ChangeLog from git logs into distribution tarball 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
configure.ac add 802.1Qbh and 802.1Qbg handling 2010-06-02 21:35:22 -04:00
COPYING.LIB remove all trailing blank lines 2009-07-16 15:06:42 +02:00
HACKING docs: hacking: explain why using curly braces well is important 2010-05-04 15:41:21 +02:00
libvirt.pc.in * libvirt.pc.in: applied patch from Daniel Berrange to fix --cflags 2006-03-24 13:18:12 +00:00
libvirt.spec.in Fix libvirt-guests init script 2010-05-28 18:00:53 +02:00
Makefile.am build: fix syntax-check problems 2010-04-12 16:43:05 -06:00
Makefile.nonreentrant syntax-check: enable prohibit_nonreentrant 2009-02-05 16:28:41 +00:00
mingw32-libvirt.spec.in build: fix some mingw issues 2010-06-10 06:05:31 -06:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
TODO Remove all trailing blanks; turn on the rule to detect them. 2008-02-05 19:27:37 +00:00

         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>