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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Wang Yufei fe51174f08 qemu_agent: fix deadlock in qemuProcessHandleAgentEOF
If VM A is shutdown a by qemu agent at appoximately the same time
an agent EOF of VM A happened, there's a chance that deadlock may occur:

qemuProcessHandleAgentEOF in main thread
A)  priv->agent = NULL; //A happened before B

    //deadlock when we get agent lock which's held by worker thread
    qemuAgentClose(agent);

qemuDomainObjExitAgent called by qemuDomainShutdownFlags in worker thread
B)  hasRefs = virObjectUnref(priv->agent); // priv->agent is NULL,
                                           // return false
    if (hasRefs)
        virObjectUnlock(priv->agent); //agent lock will not be released here

In order to resolve, during EOF close the agent first, then set priv->agent
to NULL to fix the deadlock.

This essentially reverts commit id '1020a504'. It's also of note that commit
id '362d0477' notes a possible/rare deadlock similar to what was seen in
the monitor in commit id '25f582e3'. However, it seems interceding changes
including commit id 'd960d06f' should remove the deadlock issue.

With this change, if EOF is called:

    Get VM lock
    Check if !priv->agent || priv->beingDestroyed, then unlock VM
    Call qemuAgentClose
    Unlock VM

When qemuAgentClose is called
    Get Agent lock
    If Agent->fd open, close it
    Unlock Agent
    Unref Agent

qemuDomainObjEnterAgent
    Enter with VM lock
    Get Agent lock
    Increase Agent refcnt
    Unlock VM

After running agent command, calling qemuDomainObjExitAgent
    Enter with Agent lock
    Unref Agent
    If not last reference, unlock Agent
    Get VM lock

If we were in the middle of an EnterAgent, call Agent command, and
ExitAgent sequence and the EOF code is triggered, then the EOF code
can get the VM lock, make it's checks against !priv->agent ||
priv->beingDestroyed, and call qemuAgentClose. The CloseAgent
would wait to get agent lock. The other thread then will eventually
call ExitAgent, release the Agent lock and unref the Agent. Once
ExitAgent releases the Agent lock, AgentClose will get the Agent
Agent lock, close the fd, unlock the agent, and unref the agent.
The final unref would cause deletion of the agent.

Signed-off-by: Wang Yufei <james.wangyufei@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Ren Guannan <renguannan@huawei.com>
2015-11-30 14:20:27 -05:00
.gnulib@f39477dba7 maint: update to latest gnulib 2015-06-01 13:23:18 -06:00
build-aux bracket-spacing: Add syntax-check for unnecessary curly brackets 2014-11-14 17:13:36 +01:00
daemon admin: Introduce virAdmConnectGetLibVersion 2015-11-30 09:44:28 +01:00
docs conf: add XML for input device passthrough 2015-11-30 12:29:03 +01:00
examples apparmor: add missing qemu binaries 2015-11-25 08:35:06 +01:00
gnulib maint: fix date in local gnulib patch 2015-01-05 16:44:10 +00:00
include include: Install libvirt-common.h 2015-11-30 15:37:19 +01:00
m4 locking: Add io_timeout to sanlock 2015-11-18 10:56:56 +01:00
po conf: Split virDomainObjList into a separate file 2015-11-30 13:55:10 +01:00
src qemu_agent: fix deadlock in qemuProcessHandleAgentEOF 2015-11-30 14:20:27 -05:00
tests qemu: build command line for virtio-input-host device 2015-11-30 13:00:04 +01:00
tools tools: fix output of list with state-shutoff 2015-11-30 15:08:44 +01:00
.ctags maint: Make ctags work out of the box 2013-07-18 08:47:21 +02:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore virt-admin: Introduce first working skeleton 2015-11-30 09:44:28 +01:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap maint: update .mailmap for recent contributions 2015-03-20 06:17:55 -06:00
AUTHORS.in AUTHORS: Add myself to the list of committers 2015-10-08 11:48:26 +02:00
autobuild.sh Disable libvirtd by default when building on Win32 2014-04-29 11:30:32 +01:00
autogen.sh maint: improve usage of autogen's --no-git 2015-02-06 11:35:29 -07:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2015-03-26 09:41:55 -06:00
bootstrap.conf bootstrap: Don't require python-config 2015-08-06 14:35:14 +02:00
cfg.mk libvirt: introduce libvirt/libvirt-common.h.in 2015-11-30 09:36:19 +01:00
ChangeLog-old Fix typos in src/* 2014-04-21 16:49:08 -06:00
config-post.h build: fix build of virt-login-shell on systems with older gnutls 2013-10-22 09:41:50 -06:00
configure.ac libvirt: introduce libvirt/libvirt-common.h.in 2015-11-30 09:36:19 +01:00
COPYING maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING.LESSER maint: Remove control characters from LGPL license file 2015-09-25 09:16:24 +02:00
HACKING maint: document use of zanata for translations 2015-06-10 15:26:44 -06:00
libvirt-admin.pc.in Add libvirt-admin library 2015-06-16 13:46:20 +02:00
libvirt-lxc.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt-qemu.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt.pc.in Add pkg-config files for libvirt-qemu & libvirt-lxc 2014-06-23 16:17:27 +01:00
libvirt.spec.in Import stripped down virtlockd code as basis of virtlogd 2015-11-26 14:28:55 +00:00
Makefile.am examples: Add missing build data for 'rename' 2015-09-07 09:00:19 +02:00
Makefile.nonreentrant maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in parallels: substitute parallels with vz spec file and Makefile 2015-06-17 15:07:55 +03:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking docs: update README-hacking 2014-05-06 16:20:24 -06:00
run.in Add PKG_CONFIG_PATH to run.in script. 2014-06-26 14:32:35 +01:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         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>