[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Call qemuSetupHostdevCGroup later during hotplug

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Fri Nov 15 12:55:05 UTC 2013


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:34:33 +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On 11/14/13 15:04, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1025108
> > 
> > So far qemuSetupHostdevCGroup was called very early during hotplug, even
> > before we knew the device we were about to hotplug was actually
> > available. By calling the function later, we make sure QEMU won't be
> > allowed to access devices used by other domains.
> > 
> > Another important effect of this change is that hopluging USB devices
> > specified by vendor and product (but not by their USB address) works
> > again. This was broken since v1.0.5-171-g7d763ac, when the call to
> > qemuFindHostdevUSBDevice was moved after the call to
> > qemuSetupHostdevCGroup, which then used an uninitialized USB address.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Insisting on doing the test with LD_PRELOAD as Dan suggested would be
> kind of madness in this case when considering the complexity of the test.

Yeah, since I already did quite a lot of hacking in the hotplug test, I
may eventually improve it with mocking cgroups and other stuff but it's
going to take some time for sure.

> ACK to the code changes.

Thanks and pushed.

Jirka




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