Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 14/14]: libxenlight, checks before device deletion and addition

[Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed in that it is a weak check being non-transactional. But some 
check should be there, shouldn't it? Just throwing it out there. The 
other checks are kosher I assume?
Andres
Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 07:18:18PM +0000, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
>   
> > Proper existential checks before adding or deleting a
> > device, i.e. return error if:
> >
> > - Adding a device to a non-existent domain
> > - Adding a device twice
> > - Deleting a non-existent device
> > - Deleting a device from a non-existent domain
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >     
> you should not check the non-existency of a domain. this is pointless
> since just after you check the domain might have gone away. also you might
> think of a mode where you populate the xenstore tree before creating the domain
> .. nobody does that, but I don't think there's any major stopper to do that or
> that it would be a bad idea either.
>
> Same reason that should it not check for device existency outside of the
> transaction, otherwise someome might have added it in the meantime.
>
> PS: please don't call libxl_free, that's really unnecessary at this stage,
> until we sort memory handling completly. (there's a "GC" for now)
>
>   
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