[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Remove double unlock for domains

[Martin Kletzander]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 09:21:51AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
>
>
>On 07/15/2015 03:17 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> The virDomainObjListRemove() function unlocks a domain that it's given
>> due to legacy code.  And because of that code, which should be
>> refactored, that last virObjectUnlock() cannot be just removed.  So
>> instead, lock it right back for qemu for now.  All calls to
>> qemuDomainRemoveInactive() are followed by code that unlocks the domain
>> again, plus the domain should be locked during qemuDomainObjEndJob(), so
>> the right place to lock it is right after virDomainObjListRemove().
>>
>
>Looked through callers - seems qemuProcessHandleMonitorEOF may need a
>tweak too as it skips around the virObjectUnlock(vm)
>
>My only other comment would be perhaps the entry comment into
>qemuDomainRemoveInactive could use a tweak on the wording and some
>additional text to indicate on exit it should still hold the lock (or
>just move the blob you added... Perhaps an XXX to force a revisit in the
>future based on your note above "which should be refactored"
>
>Not that anyone reads those anyway ;-)
>
>ACK with the double check on the *EOF function...
>

Would it be enough if I squashed this in?

diff --git i/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c w/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
index d6d723112638..6ba8087c108b 100644
--- i/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
+++ w/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
@@ -2597,7 +2597,13 @@ qemuDomainRemoveInactive(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
      * virDomainObjListRemove() leaves the domain unlocked so it can
      * be unref'd for other drivers that depend on that, but we still
      * need to reset a job and we have a reference from the API that
-     * called this function.  So we need to lock it back.
+     * called this function.  So we need to lock it back.  This is
+     * just a workaround for the qemu driver.
+     *
+     * XXX: Ideally, the global handling of domain objects and object
+     *      lists would be refactored so we don't need hacks like
+     *      this, but since that requires refactor of all drivers,
+     *      it's a work for another day.
      */
     virObjectLock(vm);
     virObjectUnref(cfg);
diff --git i/src/qemu/qemu_process.c w/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
index 5a9f97bc8921..ddce248635b8 100644
--- i/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
+++ w/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
@@ -323,10 +323,8 @@ qemuProcessHandleMonitorEOF(qemuMonitorPtr mon ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
     qemuProcessStop(driver, vm, stopReason, stopFlags);
     virDomainAuditStop(vm, auditReason);

-    if (!vm->persistent) {
+    if (!vm->persistent)
         qemuDomainRemoveInactive(driver, vm);
-        goto cleanup;
-    }

  unlock:
     virObjectUnlock(vm);
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