[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix a potential race in pciInitDevice.

Chris Wright chrisw at redhat.com
Wed Jul 28 21:39:38 UTC 2010


* Chris Lalancette (clalance at redhat.com) wrote:
> If detecting the FLR flag of a pci device fails, then we
> could run into the situation of trying to close a file
> descriptor twice, once in pciInitDevice() and once in pciFreeDevice().
> Fix that by removing the pciCloseConfig() in pciInitDevice() and
> just letting pciFreeDevice() handle it.
> 
> Thanks to Chris Wright for pointing out this problem.
> 
> While we are at it, fix an error check.  While it would actually
> work as-is (since success returns 0), it's still more clear to
> check for < 0 (as the rest of the code does).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>

Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw at redhat.com>




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