[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix up connection reference counting.
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Mon Aug 17 19:00:11 UTC 2009
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:57:17PM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Currently the reference counting for connections is busted. I
> first noticed it while trying to use virConnectRef; it would
> eventually cause a crash in the remote_internal driver, although
> that was really just a victim. Really, we should only call the
> close callbacks on the methods when the references drop to 0. To
> accomplish this, move all of the close callbacks into
> virUnrefConnect (since there are lots of internal users of that
> function), and arrange for virConnectClose to call that.
>
> V2: Make sure to drop the connection lock before we call the close
> callbacks, otherwise we could deadlock the daemon
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>
> ---
> src/datatypes.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> src/libvirt.c | 14 +-------------
> 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/datatypes.c b/src/datatypes.c
> index 9d556c8..bcb5fd4 100644
> --- a/src/datatypes.c
> +++ b/src/datatypes.c
> @@ -237,6 +237,25 @@ virUnrefConnect(virConnectPtr conn)
> conn->refs--;
> refs = conn->refs;
> if (refs == 0) {
> + /* make sure to release the connection lock before we call the
> + * close() callbacks, otherwise we will deadlock if an error
> + * is raised by any of the callbacks
> + */
> + virMutexUnlock(&conn->lock);
> + if (conn->networkDriver)
> + conn->networkDriver->close (conn);
> + if (conn->interfaceDriver)
> + conn->interfaceDriver->close (conn);
> + if (conn->storageDriver)
> + conn->storageDriver->close (conn);
> + if (conn->deviceMonitor)
> + conn->deviceMonitor->close (conn);
> + conn->driver->close (conn);
> +
> + /* reacquire the connection lock since virReleaseConnect expects
> + * it to already be held
> + */
> + virMutexLock(&conn->lock);
> virReleaseConnect(conn);
> /* Already unlocked mutex */
> return (0);
> diff --git a/src/libvirt.c b/src/libvirt.c
> index 5aa7f83..472c19b 100644
> --- a/src/libvirt.c
> +++ b/src/libvirt.c
> @@ -1231,19 +1231,7 @@ virConnectClose(virConnectPtr conn)
> return (-1);
> }
>
> - if (conn->networkDriver)
> - conn->networkDriver->close (conn);
> - if (conn->interfaceDriver)
> - conn->interfaceDriver->close (conn);
> - if (conn->storageDriver)
> - conn->storageDriver->close (conn);
> - if (conn->deviceMonitor)
> - conn->deviceMonitor->close (conn);
> - conn->driver->close (conn);
> -
> - if (virUnrefConnect(conn) < 0)
> - return (-1);
> - return (0);
> + return virUnrefConnect(conn);
> }
>
> /**
ACK
Daniel
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