[libvirt] [PATCH] nodedev: Fix double unlock of the driver on udevEnumerateDevices failure

[Erik Skultety]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 08:36:04AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
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> On 07/26/2017 04:45 AM, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > Commit @4cb719b2dc moved the driver locks around since these have become
> > unnecessary at spots where the code handles now self-lockable object
> > list, but missed the possible double unlock if udevEnumerateDevices
> > fails, because at that point the driver lock had been already dropped.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  src/node_device/node_device_udev.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
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> Oh yeah - missed that case... thanks.
>
> w/r/t: _hal from Martin's review - that's pre-existing and separable.
>
> Still in both cases you're in Initialization functions with an unlock of
> an unlocked resource with no error checking by the same thread on your
> way to a function that's about to destroy the mutex... and eventual
> libvirtd death.

Sure, but behaviour of an unlock of an unlocked resource is undefined and we
most probably want to terminate the daemon gracefully, or better said,
deterministically.

Erik