Hypervisor drivers (e.g. QEMU) assume that they run in a separate thread from the main event loop thread otherwise deadlocks can occur. Therefore let's report an error if max_workers < 1 is set in the libvirtd configuration file. Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.ibm.com> --- src/remote/remote_daemon_config.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/remote/remote_daemon_config.c b/src/remote/remote_daemon_config.c index b1516befb4a6..27e0c635f1be 100644 --- a/src/remote/remote_daemon_config.c +++ b/src/remote/remote_daemon_config.c @@ -337,6 +337,11 @@ daemonConfigLoadOptions(struct daemonConfig *data, goto error; if (virConfGetValueUInt(conf, "max_workers", &data->max_workers) < 0) goto error; + if (data->max_workers < 1) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", + _("'max_workers' must be greater than 0")); + goto error; + } if (virConfGetValueUInt(conf, "max_clients", &data->max_clients) < 0) goto error; if (virConfGetValueUInt(conf, "max_queued_clients", &data->max_queued_clients) < 0) -- 2.13.4