[libvirt] seg fault when running snapshot-create

Chris Lalancette clalance at redhat.com
Thu Apr 22 12:54:30 UTC 2010


On 04/22/2010 08:34 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 05:16:21PM -0400, Chris Lalancette wrote:
>> On 04/21/2010 04:34 PM, Stephen Shaw wrote:
>>> I'm getting a seg fault when running virsh snapshot-create 1, but only
>>> when virt-manager is open and connected.
>>>
>>> Here is some of the debug info I was able to come up with -
>>> http://fpaste.org/9GO6/ (bt)
>>> http://fpaste.org/7gkH/ ('thread apply all bt)
>>>
>>> * After the crash
>>> (gdb) p mon->msg
>>> $1 = (qemuMonitorMessagePtr) 0x0
>>>
>>>
>>> nibbler:~ # libvirtd --version
>>> libvirtd (libvirt) 0.8.0
>>>
>>>
>>> Please let me know if there is any other information you need.
>>> Stephen
>>
>> Thanks for the report.  To be perfectly honest, I can't see how what
>> happened could happen :).  But I'll take a closer look at it and see
>> if I can reproduce and see what is going on with it.
> 
> I see thread locking problems in the code
> 
>  - qemuDomainSnapshotCreateXML() is calling monitor commands, but has
>    not run  qemuDomainObjBeginJobWithDriver() to ensure exclusive
>    access to the monitor
> 
>  - qemuDomainSnapshotDiscard has same problem

Yep, just fixing those now.  I didn't quite understand the ObjBeginJob
before, but I think I'm understanding it now.  This is probably the source of
the problems.

-- 
Chris Lalancette




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