John Ferlan
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Rather than rely on virSecretObjEndAPI to make the final virObjectUnref after the call to virSecretObjListRemove, be more explicit by calling virObjectUnref and setting @obj to NULL for secretUndefine and in the error path of secretDefineXML. Calling EndAPI will end up calling Unlock on an already unlocked object which has indeteriminate results (usually an ignored error). The virSecretObjEndAPI will both Unref and Unlock the object; however, the virSecretObjListRemove would have already Unlock'd the object so calling Unlock again is incorrect. Once the virSecretObjListRemove is called all that's left is to Unref our interest since that's the corrollary to the virSecretObjListAdd which returned our ref interest plus references for each hash table in which the object resides. In math terms, after an Add there's 2 refs on the object (1 for the object and 1 for the list). After calling Remove there's just 1 ref on the object. For the Add callers, calling EndAPI removes the ref for the object and unlocks it, but since it's in a list the other 1 remains. Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are
not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER
and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will
be detected during execution of the configure script and a summary printed
which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: