[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix 'virsh pool-list' locking issue

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 01:07:47PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:23:35AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:38:15AM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 01:50:37PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > > > Running 'virsh pool-list' seems to deadlock libvirtd. Dan gave me some
> > > > debugging tips, and I managed to track it down to the poolGetAutostart
> > > > function. The attached patch fixes the issue.
> > > 
> > >   Argh, +1
> > > I wonder why the CIL static analysis didn't point this out... this
> > > doesn't look really different from other lockings.
> > 
> > It did catch it. Unfortunately when I finally applied the patchs there
> > was a merge conflict and i missed out this chunk, and then didn't run
> > the CIL analysis again :-(
> > 
> > Its on my todo list to get it integrated into 'make check'....
> 
>   Ouch, that's a bunch of dependancies ! And maybe I should make
> some progresses in that Ocaml tutorial I have open for 10 days now ...

I'd certainly make it optional - just have it skip the analysis if it
found that OCaml was not installed.

Daniel
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