Re: [libvirt] libvirtd deadlock on shutdown

On 06/20/2012 03:07 PM, Jim Fehlig wrote: > I'm looking into a libvirtd deadlock on daemon shutdown. The deadlock > occurs when shutting down virNetServer. If the handling of a job is in > flight in virNetServerHandleJob(), the virNetServer lock is acquired > when freeing job->prog (src/rpc/virnetserver.c:167). But the lock is > already held in virNetServerFree(), which is blocked in > virThreadPoolFree() waiting for all the workers to finish. No progress > can be made. > > The attached hack fixes the problem, but I'm not convinced this is an > appropriate fix. Is it necessary to hold the virNetServer lock when > calling virNetServerProgramFree(job->prog)? I notice the lock is not > held in the error path of virNetServerHandleJob(). > > +++ b/src/rpc/virnetserver.c > @@ -774,7 +774,9 @@ void virNetServerFree(virNetServerPtr srv) > for (i = 0 ; i < srv->nservices ; i++) > virNetServerServiceToggle(srv->services[i], false); > > + virNetServerUnlock(srv); > virThreadPoolFree(srv->workers); > + virNetServerLock(srv); As written, this can't be right, because it reads a field of srv outside the locks. But maybe you meant: <type> tmp = srv->workers; srv->workers = NULL; virNetServerUnlock(srv); virThreadPoolFree(tmp); virNetServerLock(srv); as a possible fix that doesn't violate the safety rules of reading fields from srv outside a lock.