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In the not so distant past, the lock ordering in virNWFilterLockIface() was as follows: global mutex ifaceMapLock was acquired, then internal representation of given interface was looked up in a hash table (or created brand new if none was found), the global lock was released and the lock of the interface was acquired. But this was mistakenly changed as the function was rewritten to use automatic mutexes, because now the global lock is held throughout the whole run of the function and thus the interface specific lock is acquired with the global lock held. This results in a deadlock. Fixes: dd8150c48dcf94e8d3b0481be08eeef822b98b02 Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Tested-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@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: