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If client stream does not have any data to sink and neither received EOF, a dummy packet is sent to the daemon signalising client is ready to sink some data. However, after we added event loop to client a race may occur: Thread 1 calls virNetClientStreamRecvPacket and since no data are cached nor stream has EOF, it decides to send dummy packet to server which will sent some data in turn. However, during this decision and actual message exchange with server - Thread 2 receives last stream data from server. Therefore an EOF is set on stream and if there is a call waiting (which is not yet) it is woken up. However, Thread 1 haven't sent anything so far, so there is no call to be woken up. So this thread sent dummy packet to daemon, which ignores that as no stream is associated with such packet and therefore no reply will ever come. This race causes client to hang indefinitely.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>