[libvirt] [PATCH v2 7/7] qemu_security: Lock metadata while relabelling

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Fri Aug 24 13:29:24 UTC 2018


On 08/24/2018 02:53 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:

> 
> That sounds reasonable, so we don't need the _WAIT behaviour in
> virtlockd itself, as everything will wait in the secdriver instead.
> At least for now, until we modularize the startup process with the
> shim. Guess that's just one more todo item to solve for the shim
> so not the end of the world.

Hold on, we do need _WAIT so that we mutually exclude other virtlockd-s
from other hosts fiddling with seclabels on a shared NFS. However, we
will not deadlock on a single host, that's what I'm saying.

Michal




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