[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Fix domain ID numbering race condition

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Thu Nov 8 13:09:46 UTC 2012


When the libvirt daemon is restarted it tries to reconnect to running
qemu domains. Since commit d38897a5d4b1880e1998394b2a37bba979bbdff1 the
re-connection code runs in separate threads. In the original
implementation the maximum of domain ID's (that is used as an
initializer for numbering guests created next) while libvirt was
reconnecting to the guest.

With the threaded implementation this opens a possibility for race
conditions with the thread that is autostarting guests. When there's a
guest running with id 1 and the daemon is restarted. The autostart code
is reached first and spawns the first guest that should be autostarted
as id 1. This results into the following unwanted situation:

 # virsh list
   Id    Name                           State
  ----------------------------------------------------
   1     guest1                         running
   1     guest2                         running

This patch extracts the detection code before the re-connection threads
are started so that the maximum id of the guests being reconnected to is
known.

The only semantic change created by this is if the guest with greatest ID
quits before we are able to reconnect it's ID is used anyway as the
greatest one as without this patch the greatest ID of a process we could
successfuly reconnect to would be used.
---
 src/qemu/qemu_driver.c  | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 src/qemu/qemu_process.c |  3 ---
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
index 3309f34..8ca8913 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
@@ -590,6 +590,20 @@ qemuDomainNetsRestart(void *payload,
     virDomainObjUnlock(vm);
 }

+
+static void
+qemuDomainFindMaxID(void *payload,
+                    const void *name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
+                    void *data)
+{
+    virDomainObjPtr vm = payload;
+    int *driver_maxid = data;
+
+    if (vm->def->id >= *driver_maxid)
+        *driver_maxid = vm->def->id + 1;
+}
+
+
 /**
  * qemudStartup:
  *
@@ -863,6 +877,13 @@ qemudStartup(int privileged) {
                                 NULL, NULL) < 0)
         goto error;

+    /* find the maximum ID from active and transient configs to initialize
+     * the driver with. This is to avoid race between autostart and reconnect
+     * threads */
+    virHashForEach(qemu_driver->domains.objs,
+                   qemuDomainFindMaxID,
+                   &(qemu_driver->nextvmid));
+
     virHashForEach(qemu_driver->domains.objs, qemuDomainNetsRestart, NULL);

     conn = virConnectOpen(qemu_driver->uri);
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
index d8cf4c3..8bf80e7 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
@@ -3230,9 +3230,6 @@ qemuProcessReconnect(void *opaque)
             goto error;
     }

-    if (obj->def->id >= driver->nextvmid)
-        driver->nextvmid = obj->def->id + 1;
-
 endjob:
     if (!qemuDomainObjEndJob(driver, obj))
         obj = NULL;
-- 
1.8.0




More information about the libvir-list mailing list