[Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/6] libxl: fix error handling (xenstore transaction leak) in libxl__domain_make

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

libxl__domain_make could under some circumstances leak the xenstore
transaction (stored in the variable t).  Also, failures to commit the
xenstore transaction for reasons other than EAGAIN would be ignored (!)

Fix this as follows:

  * Initialise t to 0 (not a valid transaction id), and when the
    transaction is successfully committed or rolled back, reset it.

  * Change all the instances of:       libxl__free_all(&gc); return error;
    to instead do:                     rc=error;  goto out;

  * Use the out stanza for exiting, setting rc=0 on success first.

  * Explicitly abort the transaction in the out stanza.

Also add a note by the calls manipulating the gc, to note that as this
is an internal function, the gc should really be set up and destroyed
by its caller.  But let's not do that at this stage of the 4.1 release
cycle.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/libxl/libxl_create.c |   49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_create.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_create.c
index e2bd8d0..0d0c84f 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_create.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_create.c
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ out:
 int libxl__domain_make(libxl_ctx *ctx, libxl_domain_create_info *info,
                        uint32_t *domid)
 {
-    libxl__gc gc = LIBXL_INIT_GC(ctx);
+    libxl__gc gc = LIBXL_INIT_GC(ctx); /* fixme: should be done by caller */
     int flags, ret, i, rc;
     char *uuid_string;
     char *rw_paths[] = { "device", "device/suspend/event-channel" , "data"};
@@ -293,13 +293,13 @@ int libxl__domain_make(libxl_ctx *ctx, 
libxl_domain_create_info *info,
     char *dom_path, *vm_path;
     struct xs_permissions roperm[2];
     struct xs_permissions rwperm[1];
-    xs_transaction_t t;
+    xs_transaction_t t = 0;
     xen_domain_handle_t handle;
 
     uuid_string = libxl__uuid2string(&gc, info->uuid);
     if (!uuid_string) {
-        libxl__free_all(&gc);
-        return ERROR_NOMEM;
+        rc = ERROR_NOMEM;
+        goto out;
     }
 
     flags = info->hvm ? XEN_DOMCTL_CDF_hvm_guest : 0;
@@ -313,28 +313,28 @@ int libxl__domain_make(libxl_ctx *ctx, 
libxl_domain_create_info *info,
     ret = xc_domain_create(ctx->xch, info->ssidref, handle, flags, domid);
     if (ret < 0) {
         LIBXL__LOG_ERRNOVAL(ctx, LIBXL__LOG_ERROR, ret, "domain creation 
fail");
-        libxl__free_all(&gc);
-        return ERROR_FAIL;
+        rc = ERROR_FAIL;
+        goto out;
     }
 
     ret = xc_cpupool_movedomain(ctx->xch, info->poolid, *domid);
     if (ret < 0) {
         LIBXL__LOG_ERRNOVAL(ctx, LIBXL__LOG_ERROR, ret, "domain move fail");
-        libxl__free_all(&gc);
-        return ERROR_FAIL;
+        rc = ERROR_FAIL;
+        goto out;
     }
 
     dom_path = libxl__xs_get_dompath(&gc, *domid);
     if (!dom_path) {
-        libxl__free_all(&gc);
-        return ERROR_FAIL;
+        rc = ERROR_FAIL;
+        goto out;
     }
 
     vm_path = libxl__sprintf(&gc, "/vm/%s", uuid_string);
     if (!vm_path) {
         LIBXL__LOG(ctx, LIBXL__LOG_ERROR, "cannot allocate create paths");
-        libxl__free_all(&gc);
-        return ERROR_FAIL;
+        rc = ERROR_FAIL;
+        goto out;
     }
 
     roperm[0].id = 0;
@@ -356,10 +356,8 @@ retry_transaction:
 
     xs_write(ctx->xsh, t, libxl__sprintf(&gc, "%s/vm", dom_path), vm_path, 
strlen(vm_path));
     rc = libxl_domain_rename(ctx, *domid, 0, info->name, t);
-    if (rc) {
-        libxl__free_all(&gc);
-        return rc;
-    }
+    if (rc)
+        goto out;
 
     for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(rw_paths); i++) {
         char *path = libxl__sprintf(&gc, "%s/%s", dom_path, rw_paths[i]);
@@ -381,12 +379,23 @@ retry_transaction:
     libxl__xs_writev(&gc, t, libxl__sprintf(&gc, "%s/platform", dom_path), 
info->platformdata);
 
     xs_write(ctx->xsh, t, libxl__sprintf(&gc, 
"%s/control/platform-feature-multiprocessor-suspend", dom_path), "1", 1);
-    if (!xs_transaction_end(ctx->xsh, t, 0))
-        if (errno == EAGAIN)
+    if (!xs_transaction_end(ctx->xsh, t, 0)) {
+        if (errno == EAGAIN) {
+            t = 0;
             goto retry_transaction;
+        }
+        LIBXL__LOG_ERRNO(ctx, LIBXL__LOG_ERROR, "domain creation "
+                         "xenstore transaction commit failed");
+        rc = ERROR_FAIL;
+        goto out;
+    }
+    t = 0;
 
-    libxl__free_all(&gc);
-    return 0;
+    rc = 0;
+ out:
+    if (t) xs_transaction_end(ctx->xsh, t, 1);
+    libxl__free_all(&gc); /* fixme: should be done by caller */
+    return rc;
 }
 
 static int do_domain_create(libxl_ctx *ctx, libxl_domain_config *d_config,
-- 
1.5.6.5


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