[libvirt] [PATCH] add the check whether the domain has already used a disk which attach

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 08:27:55 UTC 2008


On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 07:38:58PM +0900, S.Sakamoto wrote:
> > > > > "attach-disk" does not give an error,
> > > > > when the domain which is attached has already used the source which attach.
> > > > > This has danger of the data corruption.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I make the patch to add the check of this.
> > > > > This patch outputs an error,
> > > > > when the domain which is attached has already used the source which attach.
> > > > 
> > > > What hypervisor were you testing with ?  AFAIR, XenD should already raise
> > > > an appropriate error in this scenario.
> > > > 
> > > XenD Don't check this
> > > when I confirm it in xen(cs 18756:5fd51e1e9c79).
> > > 
> > > Therefore,
> > > I think that it had better add check to virsh.c,
> > > because this should be checked whether xen or qemu.
> > 
> > No, because then the check is only performed for people using virsh, and
> > would have to be duplicated across every single other application using
> > libvirt. If it is done in the XenD or libvirtd at time of use, then all
> > users of libvirt are automatically protected.
> Of course, it is the best if it guarded in Xend.
> But, the user may be not protected depending on cs of xen,
> 
> Had better it attach check-method in libvirt.c to protect all users of libvirt ?

  yes the patch need to be done in libvirt.c to protect applications
which are not virsh,

Daniel

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