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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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Bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689374 reported libvirtd crash during error dispatch. The reason is that libvirtd uses remoteDispatchConnError() with non-NULL conn parameter which means that virConnGetLastError() is used instead of its thread safe replacement virGetLastError(). So when several libvirtd threads are reporting errors at the same time, the errors can get mixed or corrupted or in case of bad luck libvirtd itself crashes. Since Daniel B. is going to rewrite this code from scratch on top of his RPC infrastructure, I tried to come up with a minimal fix. Thus, remoteDispatchConnError() now just ignores its conn argument and always calls virGetLastError(). However, several callers had to be touched as well, since no libvirt API is allowed to be called before dispatching the error. Doing so would reset the error and we would have nothing to dispatch. As a result of that, the code is not very nice but that doesn't really make daemon/remote.c worse than it is now :-) And it will all die soon, which is good. The bug report also contains a reproducer in C which detects both mixed up error messages and libvirtd crash. Before this patch, I was able to crash libvirtd in about 20 seconds up to 3 minutes depending on number of CPU cores (more is better) and luck. |
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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>