From: zuoboqun <zuoboqun(a)baidu.com&gt; When detaching a device, the following race condition may happen: Once qemuDomainSignalDeviceRemoval() marks the device for removal, it returns true, which means it is the caller that marked the device for removal is going to remove the device from domain definition. But qemuDomainWaitForDeviceRemoval() may still receive timeout from virDomainObjWaitUntil() which is implemented by pthread_cond_timedwait() due to an unavoidable race between the expiration of the timeout and the predicate state(priv->unplug.alias) change. And then qemuDomainWaitForDeviceRemoval() will return 0, thus the caller will not remove the device from domain definition. In this situation, the device is still present in the domain definition but doesn't exist in qemu anymore. Worse, there is no way to remove it from the domain definition. Solution is to recheck the value of priv->unplug.alias to determine who is going to remove the device from domain definition. Signed-off-by: zuo boqun <zuoboqun(a)baidu.com&gt; Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; --- v2: - rewrote waiting loop so that we always check the unplug status if the thread was notified - added comments explaining the logic src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 20 +++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c index ba9e44945b..2e3c99760d 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c @@ -5391,21 +5391,27 @@ qemuDomainWaitForDeviceRemoval(virDomainObj *vm) { qemuDomainObjPrivate *priv = vm->privateData; unsigned long long until; - int rc; if (virTimeMillisNow(&until) < 0) return 1; until += qemuDomainGetUnplugTimeout(vm); - while (priv->unplug.alias) { - if ((rc = virDomainObjWaitUntil(vm, until)) == 1) - return 0; + while (true) { + int rc; - if (rc < 0) { - VIR_WARN("Failed to wait on unplug condition for domain '%s' " - "device '%s'", vm->def->name, priv->unplug.alias); + if ((rc = virDomainObjWaitUntil(vm, until)) < 0) { + VIR_WARN("Failed to wait on unplug condition for domain '%s' device '%s'", + vm->def->name, priv->unplug.alias); return 1; } + + /* unplug event for this device was received, check the status */ + if (!priv->unplug.alias) + break; + + /* timeout */ + if (rc == 1) + return 0; } if (priv->unplug.status == QEMU_DOMAIN_UNPLUGGING_DEVICE_STATUS_GUEST_REJECTED) { -- 2.40.1