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When one thread passes the buck to another thread, it uses virCondSignal to wake up the target thread. The variable 'haveTheBuck' is not updated in a race-free manner when this occurs. The current thread sets it to false, and the woken up thread sets it to true. There is a window where a 3rd thread can come in and grab the buck. Even if this didn't lead to crashes & deadlocks, this would still result in unfairness in the buckpassing algorithm. A better solution is to *never* set haveTheBuck to false when we're passing the buck. Only set it to false when there is no further thread waiting for the buck. * src/rpc/virnetclient.c: Only set haveTheBuck to false if no thread is waiting
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>