Re: PATCH: Don't auto-set VNC port to 5900+domid

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Hi, Dan

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:10:02 +0000 "Daniel P. Berrange" wrote:

> The current code for stuffing the VNC port number into the XML looks in
> XenStore for the VNC port number, and if it does not find it there falls
> back to using 5900+domid. This is a problem because it leaves open a
> race condition where the VNC daemon for a guest may not have started up
> yet, and so if an app requests the XML at this time it'll get potentially
> bogus port number info. In the best case there will be nothing listening
> on the bogus port, in the worst case a completely different domain will
> be listening on that port.
> 
> This scenario is described here
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2007-February/msg00115.html
> 
> The reason we have the 5900+domid rule in there is to support Xen 3.0.2
> or earlier, where the port number was never stored in XenStore. For any
> Xen 3.0.3 or later, we should basically never use the 5900+domid fallback
> rule. So the attached patch makes it conditional on xendConfigVersion < 2

The patch is only for PV, isn't it?
I think we need to fix for HVM too, like the one you have.
How does that sound?

Signed-off-by: Saori Fukuta <fukuta.saori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Saori Fukuta.

Index: src/xend_internal.c
===================================================================
--- xend_internal.c     2007-02-27 03:53:05.000000000 +0900
+++ xend_internal.c.new 2007-02-27 03:51:30.000000000 +0900
@@ -1617,7 +1617,7 @@ xend_parse_sexp_desc(virConnectPtr conn,
         if (tmp[0] == '1') {
             int port = xenStoreDomainGetVNCPort(conn, domid);
             const char *listenAddr = sexpr_fmt_node(root, "domain/image/%s/vnclisten", hvm ? "hvm" : "linux");
-            if (port == -1)
+            if (port == -1 && xendConfigVersion < 2)
                 port = 5900 + domid;
             if (listenAddr)
                 virBufferVSprintf(&buf, "    <graphics type='vnc' port='%d' listen='%s'/>\n", port, listenAddr);



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