[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Forcibly mknod() even if it exists

[Michal Privoznik]

Another weird bug appeared concerning qemu namespaces. Basically
the problem is as follows:

1) Issue an API that causes libvirt to create a node in domain's
   namespace, say /dev/sda with 8:0 as major:minor (the API can
   be attach-disk for instance). Or simply create the node from
   a console by hand.

2) Detach the disk from qemu.

3) Do something that makes /dev/sda change it's minor number.

4) Try to attach the disk again.

The problem is, in a few cases - like disk-detach - we don't
remove the corresponding /dev node from the mount namespace
(because it may be used by some other disk's backing chain).
But this creates a problem, because if the node changes its
MAJ:MIN numbers we don't propagate the change into the domain's
namespace. We do plain mknod() and ignore EEXIST which obviously
is not enough because it doesn't guarantee that the node has
updated MAJ:MIN pair.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1752978

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 25 +++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
index 262b74d1ab..f54b9b21ff 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
@@ -13203,16 +13203,14 @@ qemuDomainCreateDeviceRecursive(const char *device,
                                             allow_noent, ttl - 1) < 0)
             goto cleanup;
     } else if (isDev) {
-        if (create &&
-            mknod(devicePath, sb.st_mode, sb.st_rdev) < 0) {
-            if (errno == EEXIST) {
-                ret = 0;
-            } else {
+        if (create) {
+            unlink(devicePath);
+            if (mknod(devicePath, sb.st_mode, sb.st_rdev) < 0) {
                 virReportSystemError(errno,
                                      _("Failed to make device %s"),
                                      devicePath);
+                goto cleanup;
             }
-            goto cleanup;
         }
     } else if (isReg) {
         if (create &&
@@ -13996,17 +13994,12 @@ qemuDomainAttachDeviceMknodHelper(pid_t pid G_GNUC_UNUSED,
     } else if (isDev) {
         VIR_DEBUG("Creating dev %s (%d,%d)",
                   data->file, major(data->sb.st_rdev), minor(data->sb.st_rdev));
+        unlink(data->file);
         if (mknod(data->file, data->sb.st_mode, data->sb.st_rdev) < 0) {
-            /* Because we are not removing devices on hotunplug, or
-             * we might be creating part of backing chain that
-             * already exist due to a different disk plugged to
-             * domain, accept EEXIST. */
-            if (errno != EEXIST) {
-                virReportSystemError(errno,
-                                     _("Unable to create device %s"),
-                                     data->file);
-                goto cleanup;
-            }
+            virReportSystemError(errno,
+                                 _("Unable to create device %s"),
+                                 data->file);
+            goto cleanup;
         } else {
             delDevice = true;
         }
-- 
2.23.0