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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Daniel P. Berrange 2cb0899eec Fix potential events deadlock when unref'ing virConnectPtr
When the last reference to a virConnectPtr is released by
libvirtd, it was possible for a deadlock to occur in the
virDomainEventState functions. The virDomainEventStatePtr
holds a reference on virConnectPtr for each registered
callback. When removing a callback, the virUnrefConnect
function is run. If this causes the last reference on the
virConnectPtr to be released, then virReleaseConnect can
be run, which in turns calls qemudClose. This function has
a call to virDomainEventStateDeregisterConn which is intended
to remove all callbacks associated with the virConnectPtr
instance. This will try to grab a lock on virDomainEventState
but this lock is already held. Deadlock ensues

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fcbb526a840 (LWP 23185)):

Since each callback associated with a virConnectPtr holds a
reference on virConnectPtr, it is impossible for the qemudClose
method to be invoked while any callbacks are still registered.
Thus the call to virDomainEventStateDeregisterConn must in fact
be a no-op. Thus it is possible to just remove all trace of
virDomainEventStateDeregisterConn and avoid the deadlock.

* src/conf/domain_event.c, src/conf/domain_event.h,
  src/libvirt_private.syms: Delete virDomainEventStateDeregisterConn
* src/libxl/libxl_driver.c, src/lxc/lxc_driver.c,
  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c, src/uml/uml_driver.c: Remove
  calls to virDomainEventStateDeregisterConn
2012-05-21 18:50:47 +01:00
.gnulib@bb2f5640d5 build: fix bootstrap on RHEL 2012-04-25 16:25:49 -06:00
daemon Fix build when configuring with polkit0 2012-05-21 09:23:41 -06:00
docs nwfilter: Add support for ipset 2012-05-21 06:26:34 -04:00
examples Revert "Refactor the libvirt RPM daemon pieces" 2012-04-03 14:49:31 +08:00
gnulib build: fix fresh checkout on RHEL5 2012-04-19 17:11:43 -06:00
include Add a new param 'vcpu_time' to virDomainGetCPUStats 2012-05-17 12:42:06 -06:00
m4 Enable all warnings permanently & default to -Werror for GIT builds 2012-03-27 17:08:06 +01:00
po Add openvz_util.c to POTFILES 2012-05-15 16:27:08 +01:00
python Coverity: Fix the forward_null error in Python binding codes 2012-05-04 10:23:57 +08:00
src Fix potential events deadlock when unref'ing virConnectPtr 2012-05-21 18:50:47 +01:00
tests nwfilter: Add support for ipset 2012-05-21 06:26:34 -04:00
tools Add a new param 'vcpu_time' to virDomainGetCPUStats 2012-05-17 12:42:06 -06:00
.dir-locals.el maint: let emacs avoid tabs in rng files 2011-08-13 08:56:26 -06:00
.gitignore docs: Serialize running apibuild.py 2012-04-27 12:37:47 -04:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap maint: prune duplicate listings in AUTHORS 2012-02-03 09:56:45 -07:00
AUTHORS sanlock: fix locking for readonly devices 2012-05-14 16:44:09 -06:00
autobuild.sh Enable all warnings permanently & default to -Werror for GIT builds 2012-03-27 17:08:06 +01:00
autogen.sh build: allow for local gnulib diffs 2011-11-09 09:03:33 -07:00
bootstrap build: fix bootstrap on RHEL 2012-04-25 16:25:49 -06:00
bootstrap.conf build: fix bootstrap on RHEL 2012-04-25 16:25:49 -06:00
cfg.mk build: fix recent syntax-check breakage 2012-05-16 09:52:44 -06:00
ChangeLog-old virterror.c: Fix several spelling mistakes 2012-02-03 11:32:51 -07:00
configure.ac Fix build compat with older libselinux for LXC 2012-05-16 15:38:29 +01:00
COPYING.LIB remove all trailing blank lines 2009-07-16 15:06:42 +02:00
HACKING Document STREQ_NULLABLE and STRNEQ_NULLABLE 2011-10-06 16:50:38 +02:00
libvirt.pc.in Fix typos in API XML file paths 2012-02-15 11:29:38 +00:00
libvirt.spec.in Add bundled(gnulib) to RPM specfile 2012-05-15 16:25:30 +01:00
Makefile.am maint: add missing copyright notices 2011-07-28 15:01:17 -06:00
Makefile.nonreentrant Ban use of all inet_* functions 2010-10-22 11:59:23 +01:00
mingw32-libvirt.spec.in Fix typos in API XML file paths 2012-02-15 11:29:38 +00:00
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 Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         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>