[libvirt] [PATCHv2] virNetDevVethCreate: assign container if name based on parent if name

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 01:00:15PM +0300, Oskari Saarenmaa wrote:
> Replace the loop trying to find a free veth interface name for the container
> by assigning the container if name to parent name + 'p' by default.
> Interface name selection logic is susceptible to race conditions, so try to
> select just one name by default and use that as a template for the second
> name.  The parent name can also be overriden in domain configuration.

This doesn't do anything to solve the race condition AFAICT. You still
have the window between finding a free name, and calling the ip command
to allocate it.

What we need here is a change that will catch the failure from the ip
command, and then go back to the start and find free names and retry
the ip command.


Daniel
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