[libvirt] [PATCH] Close logfile fd after spawning qemu

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Thu Sep 10 09:15:58 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 11:04 +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:13:56PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This patch closes logfile fd after spawing qemu in qemudStartVMDaemon.
> > The fd seems to be closed in the error path, but not in the normal path.
> > The fd is passed to virExecDaemonize though, but looks not being closed
> > inside it. Eventually, the fd is never closed during libvirtd lifetime.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >   ozaki-r
> > 
> > >From b3d3e0f24c5df5c7677e539bbc2598f2d7fbc3b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota at gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:53:56 +0900
> > Subject: [PATCH] Close logfile fd after spawning qemu
> > 
> > ---
> >  src/qemu_driver.c |    1 +
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu_driver.c
> > index 8f16e72..f2182c4 100644
> > --- a/src/qemu_driver.c
> > +++ b/src/qemu_driver.c
> > @@ -2187,6 +2187,7 @@ static int qemudStartVMDaemon(virConnectPtr conn,
> >                             VIR_EXEC_NONBLOCK | VIR_EXEC_CLEAR_CAPS,
> >                             qemudSecurityHook, &hookData,
> >                             pidfile);
> > +    close(logfile);
> >      VIR_FREE(pidfile);
> > 
> >      /* wait for qemu process to to show up */
> 
>   Hum, it's not quite simple.

Indeed. I only had a quick look and wasn't sure. We at least need to set
logfile to -1 after closing it to avoid trying to close it again further
down.

Cheers,
Mark.




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