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 d5a14a1a68 Add a mutex to serialize updates to firewall
The nwfilter conf update mutex previously serialized
updates to the internal data structures for firewall
rules, and updates to the firewall itself. The latter
was recently turned into a read/write lock, and filter
instantiation allowed to proceed in parallel. It was
believed that this was ok, since each filter is created
on a separate iptables/ebtables chain.

It turns out that there is a subtle lock ordering problem
on virNWFilterObjPtr instances. __virNWFilterInstantiateFilter
will hold a lock on the virNWFilterObjPtr it is instantiating.
This in turn invokes virNWFilterInstantiate which then invokes
virNWFilterDetermineMissingVarsRec which then invokes
virNWFilterObjFindByName. This iterates over every single
virNWFilterObjPtr in the list, locking them and checking their
name. So if 2 or more threads try to instantiate a filter in
parallel, they'll all hold 1 lock at the top level in the
__virNWFilterInstantiateFilter method which will cause the
other thread to deadlock in virNWFilterObjFindByName.

The fix is to add an exclusive mutex to serialize the
execution of __virNWFilterInstantiateFilter.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 925de19ed7)
2014-03-10 11:57:52 +00:00
.gnulib@d18d1b8023 build: fix bootstrap with older autoconf 2014-01-06 14:55:10 -07:00
build-aux maint: enforce comma style usage 2013-11-20 09:24:18 -07:00
daemon event: move event filtering to daemon (regression fix) 2014-02-05 08:09:52 -07:00
docs Release of libvirt-1.2.1 2014-01-16 17:25:58 +08:00
examples Allow to install apparmor profiles 2014-01-07 23:10:24 +01:00
gnulib maint: update to latest gnulib 2014-01-01 06:02:47 -07:00
include Fix docs for PMWakeup/PMSuspend callback types 2014-01-15 17:00:18 +01:00
m4 aarch64: Disable -fstack-protector. 2014-01-01 14:21:21 +00:00
po Release of libvirt-1.2.1 2014-01-16 17:25:58 +08:00
src Add a mutex to serialize updates to firewall 2014-03-10 11:57:52 +00:00
tests tests: be more explicit on qcow2 versions in virstoragetest 2014-01-15 09:19:14 -07:00
tools virt-login-shell: fix regressions in behavior 2014-01-09 15:05:04 -07:00
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.gitignore maint: ignore transient files during tests 2014-01-14 14:31:13 -07:00
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.mailmap Autogenerate AUTHORS 2012-10-19 12:44:56 -04:00
AUTHORS.in Add Gao feng to the committers list 2014-01-15 08:49:44 +08:00
autobuild.sh Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
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bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2014-01-01 06:02:47 -07:00
bootstrap.conf Add helpers for getting env vars in a setuid environment 2013-10-21 14:03:52 +01:00
cfg.mk examples: Resurrect domsuspend example 2013-12-24 17:17:35 +01:00
ChangeLog-old maint: typo fixes 2013-10-22 16:49:32 +01:00
config-post.h build: fix build of virt-login-shell on systems with older gnutls 2013-10-22 09:41:50 -06:00
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HACKING maint: enforce comma style usage 2013-11-20 09:24:18 -07:00
libvirt.pc.in Add missing 'libvirt_lxc_api' variable in pkg-config file 2013-09-04 14:52:40 +01:00
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         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>