[libvirt] PATCH: Fix remote domain events deadlock

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Jul 29 08:27:47 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:47:57PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> There is a deadlock in the remote driver's dispatch code for domain events.
> If your callback triggers a API call that does an RPC call, then the driver
> will deadlock. The fix is the same as we did in the QEMU driver. We releae
> the lock & re-aquire it, with some extreme cleverness to protect against
> people deleting callbacks during the course of dispatch

  Tricky ! Patch looks fine, ACK

Daniel

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