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The nwfilter update lock is historically acquired by the virt drivers in order to achieve serialization between nwfilter define/undefine, and instantiation/teardown of filters. When running in the modular daemons, however, the mutex that the virt drivers are locking is in a completely different process from the mutex that the nwfilter driver is locking. Serialization is lost and thus call from the virt driver to virNWFilterBindingCreateXML can deadlock with a concurrent call to the virNWFilterDefineXML method. The solution is surprisingly easy, the update lock simply needs acquiring in the virNWFilterBindingCreateXML method and virNWFilterBindingUndefine method instead of in the virt drivers. The only semantic difference here is that when a virtual machine has multiple NICs, the instantiation and teardown of filters is no longer serialized for the whole VM, but rather for each NIC. This should not be a problem since the virt drivers already need to cope with tearing down a partially created VM where only some of the NICs are setup. Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
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.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: