[Libguestfs] [nbdkit PATCH 2/4] threadlocal: Copy thread name

[Eric Blake]

On 11/16/2017 09:13 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> We can't guarantee what storage duration the caller's request
> for a thread name has; and in fact, if the caller uses
> plugin_name() for their thread name, then the moment .unload
> is called, our threadlocal storage is pointing to la-la-land
> and we get a nice SEGV while trying to print any debug message.
> So copy the user's string instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/threadlocal.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

> @@ -104,8 +105,16 @@ threadlocal_set_name (const char *name)
>  {
>    struct threadlocal *threadlocal = pthread_getspecific (threadlocal_key);
> 
> -  if (threadlocal)
> -    threadlocal->name = name;
> +  /* Copy name, as the original may be residing in a module, but we
> +   * want our thread name to persist even after unload. */
> +  if (threadlocal) {
> +    free (threadlocal->name);
> +    threadlocal->name = strdup (name);
> +    if (threadlocal->name == NULL) {
> +      perror ("malloc");
> +      exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
> +    }

I'm thinking (especially since I plan to create threads for each
connection) that an exit() may be a bit harsh here (exit during startup
is fine; but this code can be reached on more than just startup, and
once we transition into accepting connections, we should make reasonable
efforts to avoid killing off existing connections with an exit).  Thus,
I'm tweaking this function to just state that it is best-effort; if
strdup() fails, we're better off printing debug messages without a name
at all than we are exit()ing. (Then again, if strdup() fails, most
likely something else will fail soon anyways).

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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