[libvirt] [PATCH 4/7] Fix potential deadlock across fork() in QEMU driver

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue Jul 23 15:03:57 UTC 2013


From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964358

The hook scripts used by virCommand must be careful wrt
accessing any mutexes that may have been held by other
threads in the parent process. With the recent refactoring
there are 2 potential flaws lurking, which will become real
deadlock bugs once the global QEMU driver lock is removed.

Remove use of the QEMU driver lock from the hook function
by passing in the 'virQEMUDriverConfigPtr' instance directly.

Add functions to the virSecurityManager to be invoked before
and after fork, to ensure the mutex is held by the current
thread. This allows it to be safely used in the hook script
in the child process.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 61b52d2e3813cc8c9ff3ab67f232bd0c65f7318d)

Conflicts:
	src/libvirt_private.syms - context
	src/qemu/qemu_process.c - no backport of qemud_driver struct rename
	src/security/security_manager.c - no backport of making the security driver self-locking; just expose the interface
---
 src/libvirt_private.syms        |  2 ++
 src/qemu/qemu_process.c         |  7 +++++++
 src/security/security_manager.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 src/security/security_manager.h |  3 +++
 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms
index 24f7047..17e5eff 100644
--- a/src/libvirt_private.syms
+++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms
@@ -1047,6 +1047,8 @@ virSecurityManagerGetProcessLabel;
 virSecurityManagerNew;
 virSecurityManagerNewStack;
 virSecurityManagerNewDAC;
+virSecurityManagerPostFork;
+virSecurityManagerPreFork;
 virSecurityManagerReleaseLabel;
 virSecurityManagerReserveLabel;
 virSecurityManagerRestoreImageLabel;
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
index cfadc2c..01c6880 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
@@ -2579,6 +2579,11 @@ static int qemuProcessHook(void *data)
     struct qemuProcessHookData *h = data;
     int ret = -1;
     int fd;
+    /* This method cannot use any mutexes, which are not
+     * protected across fork()
+     */
+
+    virSecurityManagerPostFork(h->driver->securityManager);

     /* Some later calls want pid present */
     h->vm->pid = getpid();
@@ -3640,7 +3645,9 @@ int qemuProcessStart(virConnectPtr conn,
     virCommandDaemonize(cmd);
     virCommandRequireHandshake(cmd);

+    virSecurityManagerPreFork(driver->securityManager);
     ret = virCommandRun(cmd, NULL);
+    virSecurityManagerPostFork(driver->securityManager);

     /* wait for qemu process to show up */
     if (ret == 0) {
diff --git a/src/security/security_manager.c b/src/security/security_manager.c
index d446607..fc7acff 100644
--- a/src/security/security_manager.c
+++ b/src/security/security_manager.c
@@ -161,6 +161,26 @@ virSecurityManagerPtr virSecurityManagerNew(const char *name,
                                        requireConfined);
 }

+
+/*
+ * Must be called before fork()'ing to ensure mutex state
+ * is sane for the child to use
+ */
+void virSecurityManagerPreFork(virSecurityManagerPtr mgr ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
+{
+    /* XXX Grab our own mutex here instead of relying on caller's mutex */
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Must be called after fork()'ing in both parent and child
+ * to ensure mutex state is sane for the child to use
+ */
+void virSecurityManagerPostFork(virSecurityManagerPtr mgr ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
+{
+    /* XXX Release our own mutex here instead of relying on caller's mutex */
+}
+
 void *virSecurityManagerGetPrivateData(virSecurityManagerPtr mgr)
 {
     /* This accesses the memory just beyond mgr, which was allocated
diff --git a/src/security/security_manager.h b/src/security/security_manager.h
index 1fdaf8e..d1a5997 100644
--- a/src/security/security_manager.h
+++ b/src/security/security_manager.h
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ virSecurityManagerPtr virSecurityManagerNewDAC(const char *virtDriver,
                                                bool requireConfined,
                                                bool dynamicOwnership);

+void virSecurityManagerPreFork(virSecurityManagerPtr mgr);
+void virSecurityManagerPostFork(virSecurityManagerPtr mgr);
+
 void *virSecurityManagerGetPrivateData(virSecurityManagerPtr mgr);

 void virSecurityManagerFree(virSecurityManagerPtr mgr);
-- 
1.8.3.1




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