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This bug has been present since before the time that commit f8a519 (Dec 2008) tried to make the dispatch loop re-entrant. Dereferencing eventLoop.handles outside the lock risks crashing, since any other thread could have reallocated the array in the meantime. It's a narrow race window, however, and one that would have most likely resulted in passing bogus data to the callback rather than actually causing a segv, which is probably why it has gone undetected this long. * daemon/event.c (virEventDispatchHandles): Cache data while inside the lock, as the array might be reallocated once outside.
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>