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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Make xend reject duplicates and rename zombies

To: Dan Smith <danms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Make xend reject duplicates and rename zombies
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:54:30 -0500
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I think this is not the right solution to the problem at hand. The problem stems from the fact that xm destroy is just a call to xc_domain_destroy which is really just a request to the hypervisor to destroy the domain.

Therefore, there is a race condition if you assume that the domain is dead after xm destroy returns. This patch renames the domain name which prevents a name class but does not solve the general problem. Consider, for instance, if a domain is using a block device and you do an xm destroy. It is not safe to create a new domain with that same block device until you know that the previously mentioned domain is gone.

This patch would allow:

xm destroy xmexample1 && xm create /etc/xen/xmexample1

Even though it might really be conflicting. This could lead to *very* subtle device corruption down the road.

I think the right solution is to make xm destroy not return until the domain has actually gone away and add a flag to xm destroy to return immediately if that behavior is ever desired.

I'll work up a patch tonight after class.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Dan Smith wrote:

This patch is an update of my previous anti-duplicate-domain patch.
Now, we check an existing same-name domain to see if it's in the
"terminated" state, renaming it to "zombie-domid-name" if so.

This basically makes the problem go away for me, as it gives the dying
domain time to clean itself up.

Test 10_create_fastdestroy from the next release of xm-test validates
that this fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Dan Smith <danms@xxxxxxxxxx>

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diff -r c27431cf81f9 tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomain.py
--- a/tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomain.py       Thu Sep 15 13:17:24 2005
+++ b/tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomain.py       Thu Sep 15 08:44:22 2005
@@ -297,6 +297,20 @@
        @param config: configuration
        @return: domain
        """
+
+        existing = self.domains.get_by_name(sxp.child_value(config, "name"))
+        if existing:
+            if existing.is_terminated():
+                newname = "zombie-%i-%s" % (existing.domid, existing.name)
+                log.debug("Renaming zombie domain %s -> %s" %
+                          (existing.name, newname))
+                existing.setName(newname)
+            else:
+                log.debug("Attempt to create duplicate domain %s" %
+                          existing.name)
+                raise XendError("Domain %s already exists as %i!" %
+                                (existing.name, existing.id))
+ dominfo = XendDomainInfo.create(self.dbmap, config)
        return dominfo

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