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Jiri Denemark 173c291473 Don't crash if a connection closes early
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047577

When a client closes its connection to libvirtd early during
virConnectOpen, more specifically just after making
REMOTE_PROC_CONNECT_SUPPORTS_FEATURE call to check if
VIR_DRV_FEATURE_PROGRAM_KEEPALIVE is supported without even waiting for
the result, libvirtd may crash due to a race in keep-alive
initialization. Once receiving the REMOTE_PROC_CONNECT_SUPPORTS_FEATURE
call, the daemon's event loop delegates it to a worker thread. In case
the event loop detects EOF on the connection and calls
virNetServerClientClose before the worker thread starts to handle
REMOTE_PROC_CONNECT_SUPPORTS_FEATURE call, client->keepalive will be
disposed by the time virNetServerClientStartKeepAlive gets called from
remoteDispatchConnectSupportsFeature. Because the flow is common for
both authenticated and read-only connections, even unprivileged clients
may cause the daemon to crash.

To avoid the crash, virNetServerClientStartKeepAlive needs to check if
the connection is still open before starting keep-alive protocol.

Every libvirt release since 0.9.8 is affected by this bug.
2014-01-13 11:09:59 +01:00
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build-aux maint: enforce comma style usage 2013-11-20 09:24:18 -07:00
daemon Add Documentation fields to systemd service files 2014-01-09 09:32:55 +01:00
docs schema: fix idmap validation 2014-01-10 10:54:14 -07:00
examples Allow to install apparmor profiles 2014-01-07 23:10:24 +01:00
gnulib maint: update to latest gnulib 2014-01-01 06:02:47 -07:00
include docs: improve event-related documentation 2013-12-19 09:45:50 -07:00
m4 aarch64: Disable -fstack-protector. 2014-01-01 14:21:21 +00:00
po maint: improve VIR_ERR_INVALID_DOMAIN usage 2014-01-07 14:38:12 -07:00
src Don't crash if a connection closes early 2014-01-13 11:09:59 +01:00
tests Exercise the ABI stability check code in test suite 2014-01-10 20:32:48 +00:00
tools virt-login-shell: fix regressions in behavior 2014-01-09 15:05:04 -07:00
.ctags maint: Make ctags work out of the box 2013-07-18 08:47:21 +02:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore examples: Resurrect domsuspend example 2013-12-24 17:17:35 +01:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap Autogenerate AUTHORS 2012-10-19 12:44:56 -04:00
AUTHORS.in Add John Ferlan to the committers list 2013-02-05 10:59:32 -05:00
COPYING maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING.LESSER maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
ChangeLog-old maint: typo fixes 2013-10-22 16:49:32 +01:00
HACKING maint: enforce comma style usage 2013-11-20 09:24:18 -07:00
Makefile.am examples: Resurrect domsuspend example 2013-12-24 17:17:35 +01:00
Makefile.nonreentrant maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00
autobuild.sh Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
autogen.sh autogen.sh: Correctly detect .git as a file 2013-08-29 13:19:45 +02:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2014-01-01 06:02:47 -07:00
bootstrap.conf Add helpers for getting env vars in a setuid environment 2013-10-21 14:03:52 +01:00
cfg.mk examples: Resurrect domsuspend example 2013-12-24 17:17:35 +01:00
config-post.h build: fix build of virt-login-shell on systems with older gnutls 2013-10-22 09:41:50 -06:00
configure.ac Make sure AC_ARG_WITH is always executed 2014-01-08 17:51:11 +01:00
libvirt.pc.in Add missing 'libvirt_lxc_api' variable in pkg-config file 2013-09-04 14:52:40 +01:00
libvirt.spec.in examples: Resurrect domsuspend example 2013-12-24 17:17:35 +01:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
run.in Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00

README

         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>