When firewalld is restarted or has its rules reloaded, we trigger a reload of the nwfilter driver. This is done directly in the main event loop thread which is a bad idea. In a previous commit we fixed a actual deadlock problem with the virStateReload API, when triggered from SIGHUP: commit 33c6eb9689eb51dfe31dd05b24b3b6b1c948c267 Author: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig(a)suse.com&gt; Date: Thu Mar 8 15:04:48 2018 -0700 libvirtd: fix potential deadlock when reloading The same deadlock problem previously existed with the firewalld reload trigger, however, today it is not quite so series. The QEMU driver uses a private event thread for each VM, so the particular deadlock would not occur. None the less during the time the filters are reloading all use of the event loop is blocked, which prevents APIs being serviced. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c index 1f7d40e1b0..f620461f6a 100644 --- a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c +++ b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c @@ -59,6 +59,13 @@ static virMutex driverMutex = VIR_MUTEX_INITIALIZER; #ifdef WITH_FIREWALLD +static void nwfilterStateReloadThread(void *opaque G_GNUC_UNUSED) +{ + VIR_INFO("Reloading configuration on firewalld reload/restart"); + + nwfilterStateReload(); +} + static void nwfilterFirewalldDBusSignalCallback(GDBusConnection *connection G_GNUC_UNUSED, const char *senderName G_GNUC_UNUSED, @@ -68,7 +75,15 @@ nwfilterFirewalldDBusSignalCallback(GDBusConnection *connection G_GNUC_UNUSED, GVariant *parameters G_GNUC_UNUSED, gpointer user_data G_GNUC_UNUSED) { - nwfilterStateReload(); + virThread thr; + + if (virThreadCreateFull(&thr, false, nwfilterStateReloadThread, + "firewall-reload", false, NULL) < 0) { + /* + * Not much we can do on error here except log it. + */ + VIR_ERROR(_("Failed to create thread to handle firewall reload/restart")); + } } static unsigned int restartID; -- 2.34.1