[libvirt] [PATCH v2] processSerialChangedEvent: Close agent monitor early

[Michal Privoznik]

On 07.05.2015 16:07, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 11:33:58AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890648
>>
>> So, imagine you've issued an API that involves guest agent. For
>> instance, you want to query guest's IP addresses. So the API acquires
>> QUERY_JOB, locks the guest agent and issues the agent command.
>> However, for some reason, guest agent replies to initial ping
>> correctly, but then crashes tragically while executing real command
>> (in this case guest-network-get-interfaces). Since initial ping went
>> well, libvirt thinks guest agent is accessible and awaits reply to the
>> real command. But it will never come. What will is a monitor event.
>> Our handler (processSerialChangedEvent) will try to acquire
>> MODIFY_JOB, which will fail obviously because the other thread that's
>> executing the API already holds a job. So the event handler exits
>> early, and the QUERY_JOB is never released nor ended.
>>
>> The way how to solve this is to put flag somewhere in the monitor
>> internals. The flag is called @running and agent commands are issued
>> iff the flag is set. The flag itself is set when we connect to the
>> agent socket. And unset whenever we see DISCONNECT event from the
>> agent. Moreover, we must wake up all the threads waiting for the
>> agent. This is done by signalizing the condition they're waiting on.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>
> 
> ACK, all of that is necessary and it also complies with the error
> message flag request from v1.

Thanks, pushed.

Michal