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The nwfilter conf update mutex previously serialized updates to the internal data structures for firewall rules, and updates to the firewall itself. The latter was recently turned into a read/write lock, and filter instantiation allowed to proceed in parallel. It was believed that this was ok, since each filter is created on a separate iptables/ebtables chain. It turns out that there is a subtle lock ordering problem on virNWFilterObjPtr instances. __virNWFilterInstantiateFilter will hold a lock on the virNWFilterObjPtr it is instantiating. This in turn invokes virNWFilterInstantiate which then invokes virNWFilterDetermineMissingVarsRec which then invokes virNWFilterObjFindByName. This iterates over every single virNWFilterObjPtr in the list, locking them and checking their name. So if 2 or more threads try to instantiate a filter in parallel, they'll all hold 1 lock at the top level in the __virNWFilterInstantiateFilter method which will cause the other thread to deadlock in virNWFilterObjFindByName. The fix is to add an exclusive mutex to serialize the execution of __virNWFilterInstantiateFilter. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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>