[libvirt] libvirt python is not correctly passing file descriptors to underlying virDomainCreateWithFiles

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue Oct 22 15:42:31 UTC 2013


On 10/21/2013 06:03 PM, Marian Neagul wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> While working on a component handling container management I stumbled on a bug 
> in the libvirt python bindings: basically the python bindings fail in properly 
> translating the python file descriptor list to a native C array.
> The primary symptom was that inside the container the file descriptors are 
> created but mapped to '/dev/null' instead of the original file descriptors
> 
> This problem was discovered in libvirt 1.1.2 but the problem exists also in the 
> current git head.
> 
> I'm attaching a simple patch fixing the bug, and re-establishing the expected 
> behaviour.
> I've also opened a bugzilla issue at 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021434

Thanks again for filing the bug and posting the patch; it looks like
Martin applied it from a second thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-October/msg01009.html

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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