[libvirt] [PATCH] lxc_controller.c: don't ignore failed "accept"

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Feb 2 11:06:47 UTC 2010


On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:58:44AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> coverity complained (rightly) about the risk of closing a negative
> file descriptor.  However, the real problem was the missing test
> for a failed "accept" call.  I'm not 100% sure that a failed
> accept call deserves to provoke a "goto cleanup", but doing that
> is consistent with what the nearby code does upon epoll_ctl failure.

This isn't correct because the incoming client can quit between the
time of poll() indicating its presence, and accept() trying to process
it. This is an expected non-fatal scenario, so it should just be
ignored without quitting. epoll_ctl() by comparison is a fatal system
error, so has to be handled as an unrecoverable error 

Daniel
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