Currently, after we removed the qemu driver lock, it may happen that two or more threads will start up a machine with macvlan and race over virNetDevMacVLanCreateWithVPortProfile(). However, there's a racy section in which we are generating a sequence of possible device names and detecting if they exits. If we found one which doesn't we try to create a device with that name. However, the other thread is doing just the same. Assume it will succeed and we must therefore fail. If this happens more than 5 times (which in massive parallel startup surely will) we return -1 without any error reported. This patch is a simple hack to both of these problems. It introduces a mutex, so only one thread will enter the section, and if it runs out of possibilities, error is reported. Moreover, the number of retries is raised to 20. --- diff to v1: -don't increase @retries -move error reporting to virNetDevMacVLanCreateMutexOnceInit src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c b/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c index a74db1e..ddea11f 100644 --- a/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c +++ b/src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #include "virmacaddr.h" #include "virutil.h" #include "virerror.h" +#include "virthread.h" #define VIR_FROM_THIS VIR_FROM_NET @@ -71,6 +72,19 @@ VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virNetDevMacVLanMode, VIR_NETDEV_MACVLAN_MODE_LAST, # define MACVLAN_NAME_PREFIX "macvlan" # define MACVLAN_NAME_PATTERN "macvlan%d" +virMutex virNetDevMacVLanCreateMutex; + +static int virNetDevMacVLanCreateMutexOnceInit(void) +{ + if (virMutexInit(&virNetDevMacVLanCreateMutex) < 0) { + virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", _("unable to init mutex")); + return -1; + } + return 0; +} + +VIR_ONCE_GLOBAL_INIT(virNetDevMacVLanCreateMutex); + /** * virNetDevMacVLanCreate: * @@ -829,7 +843,7 @@ int virNetDevMacVLanCreateWithVPortProfile(const char *tgifname, char ifname[IFNAMSIZ]; int retries, do_retry = 0; uint32_t macvtapMode; - const char *cr_ifname; + const char *cr_ifname = NULL; int ret; int vf = -1; @@ -871,22 +885,35 @@ int virNetDevMacVLanCreateWithVPortProfile(const char *tgifname, } else { create_name: retries = 5; + if (virNetDevMacVLanCreateMutexInitialize() < 0) + return -1; + virMutexLock(&virNetDevMacVLanCreateMutex); for (c = 0; c < 8192; c++) { snprintf(ifname, sizeof(ifname), pattern, c); - if ((ret = virNetDevExists(ifname)) < 0) + if ((ret = virNetDevExists(ifname)) < 0) { + virMutexUnlock(&virNetDevMacVLanCreateMutex); return -1; + } if (!ret) { rc = virNetDevMacVLanCreate(ifname, type, macaddress, linkdev, macvtapMode, &do_retry); - if (rc == 0) + if (rc == 0) { + cr_ifname = ifname; break; + } if (do_retry && --retries) continue; - return -1; + break; } } - cr_ifname = ifname; + + virMutexUnlock(&virNetDevMacVLanCreateMutex); + if (!cr_ifname) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, "%s", + _("Unable to create macvlan device")); + return -1; + } } if (virNetDevVPortProfileAssociate(cr_ifname,