[libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] Manually kill gzip if restore fails before starting qemu

If a guest image is saved in compressed format, and the restore fails in some way after the intermediate process used to uncompress the image has been started, but before qemu has been started to hook up to the uncompressor, libvirt will endlessly wait for the uncompressor to finish, but it never will because it's still waiting to have something hooked up to drain its output. The solution is to manually send a SIGTERM to the compressor process before calling waitpid on it (only if the restore has failed, of course). --- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index 985b062..cdf7964 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -5764,6 +5764,12 @@ qemudDomainSaveImageStartVM(virConnectPtr conn, VIR_VM_OP_RESTORE); if (intermediate_pid != -1) { + /* if there was an error setting up qemu, the intermediate process will + * wait forever to write to stdout, so we must manually kill it + */ + if (ret < 0) + kill(intermediate_pid, SIGTERM); + /* Wait for intermediate process to exit */ while (waitpid(intermediate_pid, &childstat, 0) == -1 && errno == EINTR) { -- 1.7.3.4