[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] Re: libvirtd live-locking on CTX_LOCK when doing 'virsh <domid> save /tmp/blah' with guest corrupting memory (on purpose).

Ian Jackson Ian.Jackson at eu.citrix.com
Thu Apr 16 17:18:02 UTC 2015


Jim Fehlig writes ("Re: [PATCH 0/2] Re: libvirtd live-locking on CTX_LOCK when doing 'virsh <domid> save /tmp/blah' with guest corrupting memory (on purpose)."):
> On 04/14/2015 11:31 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I have produced what I think are two patches that will fix this.  I
> > have compiled them but I haven't tested them.  Konrad, are you able to
> > check whether they fix your bug ?
> 
> I too saw this bug just before Konrad's report, but the patches don't seem to 
> help.  Running a script that continually saves and restores domains will 
> eventually lock libvirtd with essentially the same traces reported by Konrad

I'm a total idiot.  I do the recheck but I don't pay any attention to
the result.

I will send an updated approach which does this centrally.

Ian.




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