Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] qemu: completely rework reference counting

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On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 07:57:50PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
On 12/05/14 15:03, Martin Kletzander wrote:
There is one problem that causes various errors in the daemon.  When
domain is waiting for a job, it is unlocked while waiting on the
condition.  However, if that domain is for example transient and being
removed in another API (e.g. cancelling incoming migration), it get's
unref'd.  If the first call, that was waiting, fails to get the job, it
unref's the domain object, and because it was the last reference, it
causes clearing of the whole domain object.  However, when finishing the
call, the domain must be unlocked, but there is no way for the API to
know whether it was cleaned or not (unless there is some ugly temporary
variable, but let's scratch that).

The root cause is that our APIs don't ref the objects they are using and
all use the implicit reference that the object has when it is in the
domain list.  That reference can be removed when the API is waiting for
a job.  And because each domain doesn't do its ref'ing, it results in
the ugly checking of the return value of virObjectUnref() that we have
everywhere.

This patch changes qemuDomObjFromDomain() to ref the domain (using
virDomainObjListFindByUUIDRef()) and adds qemuDomObjEndAPI() which
should be the only function in which the return value of
virObjectUnref() is checked.  This makes all reference counting
deterministic and makes the code a bit clearer.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 src/qemu/THREADS.txt      |  40 ++-
 src/qemu/qemu_domain.c    |  29 +-
 src/qemu/qemu_domain.h    |  12 +-
 src/qemu/qemu_driver.c    | 708 ++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 src/qemu/qemu_migration.c | 108 +++----
 src/qemu/qemu_migration.h |  10 +-
 src/qemu/qemu_process.c   |  87 +++---
 7 files changed, 359 insertions(+), 635 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu/THREADS.txt b/src/qemu/THREADS.txt
index 50a0cf9..53a3415 100644
--- a/src/qemu/THREADS.txt
+++ b/src/qemu/THREADS.txt

...

@@ -109,7 +117,6 @@ To lock the virDomainObjPtr
 To acquire the normal job condition

   qemuDomainObjBeginJob()

*

-    - Increments ref count on virDomainObjPtr
     - Waits until the job is compatible with current async job or no
       async job is running
     - Waits for job.cond condition 'job.active != 0' using virDomainObjPtr
@@ -122,14 +129,12 @@ To acquire the normal job condition
   qemuDomainObjEndJob()
     - Sets job.active to 0
     - Signals on job.cond condition
-    - Decrements ref count on virDomainObjPtr



 To acquire the asynchronous job condition

   qemuDomainObjBeginAsyncJob()
-    - Increments ref count on virDomainObjPtr

Should we mention that having a ref already is pre-requisite for calling
Begin*Job?


I take it as from this patch onwards it is pre-requisite to have a ref
for doing anything.

     - Waits until no async job is running
     - Waits for job.cond condition 'job.active != 0' using virDomainObjPtr
       mutex

...

@@ -179,12 +183,10 @@ To acquire the QEMU monitor lock as part of an asynchronous job
 To keep a domain alive while waiting on a remote command

   qemuDomainObjEnterRemote()

Same here ?


Same here.

Maybe it would be nice to document that the only way how to obtain
virDomainPtr is with its own reference.  Would that help?

-    - Increments ref count on virDomainObjPtr
     - Releases the virDomainObjPtr lock

   qemuDomainObjExitRemote()
     - Acquires the virDomainObjPtr lock
-    - Decrements ref count on virDomainObjPtr


 Design patterns

@@ -195,18 +197,18 @@ Design patterns

      virDomainObjPtr obj;

-     obj = virDomainFindByUUID(driver->domains, dom->uuid);
+     obj = qemuDomObjFromDomain(dom);

      ...do work...

-     virDomainObjUnlock(obj);
+     qemuDomObjEndAPI(obj);

&obj to match the code.


I guess I missed some 'git add' after one of the 'sed -s' :)

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
index 220304f..d4a6021 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_domain.c
@@ -1318,8 +1318,6 @@ qemuDomainObjBeginJobInternal(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
     priv->jobs_queued++;
     then = now + QEMU_JOB_WAIT_TIME;

-    virObjectRef(obj);
-
  retry:
     if (cfg->maxQueuedJobs &&
         priv->jobs_queued > cfg->maxQueuedJobs) {
@@ -1398,7 +1396,6 @@ qemuDomainObjBeginJobInternal(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,

  cleanup:
     priv->jobs_queued--;
-    virObjectUnref(obj);
     virObjectUnref(cfg);
     return ret;
 }
@@ -1467,7 +1464,8 @@ qemuDomainObjBeginNestedJob(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
  * Returns true if @obj was still referenced, false if it was
  * disposed of.

Comment is no longer valid, also mentioning that caller should hold a
reference would be helpful.


Yes, this should be removed.  About the reference, see above.

  */
-bool qemuDomainObjEndJob(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, virDomainObjPtr obj)
+void
+qemuDomainObjEndJob(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, virDomainObjPtr obj)
 {
     qemuDomainObjPrivatePtr priv = obj->privateData;
     qemuDomainJob job = priv->job.active;

...


@@ -1541,7 +1535,7 @@ qemuDomainObjEnterMonitorInternal(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
             virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, "%s",
                            _("domain is no longer running"));
             /* Still referenced by the containing async job.  */

This comment is no longer valid.


Yes, thanks (even though it is referenced by an API that entered the
monitor).

-            ignore_value(qemuDomainObjEndJob(driver, obj));
+            qemuDomainObjEndJob(driver, obj);
             return -1;
         }
     } else if (priv->job.asyncOwner == virThreadSelfID()) {

...

@@ -2795,3 +2786,11 @@ qemuDomainAgentAvailable(qemuDomainObjPrivatePtr priv,
     }
     return true;
 }
+

Adding some docs what this exactly does would be cool.


Would some short paragraph like the following one, for example,
suffice?

/*
* Stop working with a vm.  Unlock the domain, decrements its
* reference counter and sets the parameter to NULL to make sure there
* is no consecutive access to the domain structure.
*/

+void
+qemuDomObjEndAPI(virDomainObjPtr *vm)
+{
+    virObjectUnlock(*vm);
+    virObjectUnref(*vm);
+    *vm = NULL;
+}

[...]

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
index 9152cf5..2e0b7fc 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
@@ -205,11 +205,11 @@ struct qemuAutostartData {
  * qemuDomObjFromDomain:
  * @domain: Domain pointer that has to be looked up
  *
- * This function looks up @domain and returns the appropriate
- * virDomainObjPtr.
+ * This function looks up @domain and returns the appropriate virDomainObjPtr
+ * that has to be cleaned by calling qemuDomObjEndAPI().

s/cleaned/released/ ?


I've got no problem changing it :)

  *
- * Returns the domain object which is locked on success, NULL
- * otherwise.
+ * Returns the domain object with incremented reference counter which is locked
+ * on success, NULL otherwise.
  */
 static virDomainObjPtr
 qemuDomObjFromDomain(virDomainPtr domain)

[...]

@@ -1446,7 +1445,7 @@ static virDomainPtr qemuDomainLookupByID(virConnectPtr conn,
     virDomainObjPtr vm;
     virDomainPtr dom = NULL;

-    vm  = virDomainObjListFindByID(driver->domains, id);
+    vm = virDomainObjListFindByID(driver->domains, id);

Unrelated whitespace change ..


I haven't felt like this deserves its own commit.


     if (!vm) {
         virReportError(VIR_ERR_NO_DOMAIN,
@@ -1461,8 +1460,7 @@ static virDomainPtr qemuDomainLookupByID(virConnectPtr conn,
     if (dom) dom->id = vm->def->id;

  cleanup:
-    if (vm)
-        virObjectUnlock(vm);

and possible crash. If virDomainObjListFindByID fails, the code jumps to
the cleanup label with "vm == NULL".

Both changes also don't do anything with the reference count and thus
should be dropped from this patch as a separate cleanup.

Additional changes would be required in case you want to make the API
more robust by adding a similar "ref then lock" scheme also for the ID
lookup func. Without that change, this leaves a vector that will allow
to lock up the domains hash in case a VM is unresponsive.


For ByID and ByName it is not that easy to change the code to do ref,
unlock list, lock, because the domain itself is being compared to the
name/id and it has to be locked for that (or at least for the ID it
does).

qemuDomObjEndAPI() needs to just return if the parameter points to
NULL.  This wasn't a problem with that "if (unref) unlock" logic.

+    virObjectUnlock(vm);
     return dom;
 }

@@ -1473,7 +1471,7 @@ static virDomainPtr qemuDomainLookupByUUID(virConnectPtr conn,
     virDomainObjPtr vm;
     virDomainPtr dom = NULL;

-    vm = virDomainObjListFindByUUID(driver->domains, uuid);
+    vm = virDomainObjListFindByUUIDRef(driver->domains, uuid);

     if (!vm) {
         char uuidstr[VIR_UUID_STRING_BUFLEN];
@@ -1490,8 +1488,7 @@ static virDomainPtr qemuDomainLookupByUUID(virConnectPtr conn,
     if (dom) dom->id = vm->def->id;

  cleanup:
-    if (vm)
-        virObjectUnlock(vm);
+    qemuDomObjEndAPI(&vm);

Control flow allows to reach this part with "vm == NULL" which would
induce a crash.

     return dom;
 }

@@ -1517,8 +1514,7 @@ static virDomainPtr qemuDomainLookupByName(virConnectPtr conn,
     if (dom) dom->id = vm->def->id;

  cleanup:
-    if (vm)
-        virObjectUnlock(vm);
+    virObjectUnlock(vm);

Aaand the same as above ;)

     return dom;
 }

@@ -1537,8 +1533,7 @@ static int qemuDomainIsActive(virDomainPtr dom)
     ret = virDomainObjIsActive(obj);

  cleanup:
-    if (obj)
-        virObjectUnlock(obj);
+    qemuDomObjEndAPI(&obj);

Same as above. if obj is NULL we jump here.

     return ret;
 }

@@ -1556,8 +1551,7 @@ static int qemuDomainIsPersistent(virDomainPtr dom)
     ret = obj->persistent;

  cleanup:
-    if (obj)
-        virObjectUnlock(obj);
+    qemuDomObjEndAPI(&obj);

Ditto.

     return ret;
 }

@@ -1575,8 +1569,7 @@ static int qemuDomainIsUpdated(virDomainPtr dom)
     ret = obj->updated;

  cleanup:
-    if (obj)
-        virObjectUnlock(obj);
+    qemuDomObjEndAPI(&obj);

Ditto.

     return ret;
 }

@@ -1717,12 +1710,11 @@ static virDomainPtr qemuDomainCreateXML(virConnectPtr conn,
                                    VIR_DOMAIN_OBJ_LIST_ADD_CHECK_LIVE,
                                    NULL)))
         goto cleanup;
-
+    virObjectRef(vm);
     def = NULL;

     if (qemuDomainObjBeginJob(driver, vm, QEMU_JOB_MODIFY) < 0) {
         qemuDomainRemoveInactive(driver, vm);
-        vm = NULL;
         goto cleanup;
     }

@@ -1731,9 +1723,8 @@ static virDomainPtr qemuDomainCreateXML(virConnectPtr conn,
                          VIR_NETDEV_VPORT_PROFILE_OP_CREATE,
                          start_flags) < 0) {
         virDomainAuditStart(vm, "booted", false);
-        if (qemuDomainObjEndJob(driver, vm))
-            qemuDomainRemoveInactive(driver, vm);
-        vm = NULL;
+        qemuDomainObjEndJob(driver, vm);
+        qemuDomainRemoveInactive(driver, vm);
         goto cleanup;
     }

@@ -1756,13 +1747,11 @@ static virDomainPtr qemuDomainCreateXML(virConnectPtr conn,
     if (dom)
         dom->id = vm->def->id;

-    if (!qemuDomainObjEndJob(driver, vm))
-        vm = NULL;
+    qemuDomainObjEndJob(driver, vm);

  cleanup:
     virDomainDefFree(def);
-    if (vm)
-        virObjectUnlock(vm);
+    qemuDomObjEndAPI(&vm);
     if (event) {
         qemuDomainEventQueue(driver, event);
         if (event2)
@@ -1842,12 +1831,10 @@ static int qemuDomainSuspend(virDomainPtr dom)
     ret = 0;

  endjob:
-    if (!qemuDomainObjEndJob(driver, vm))
-        vm = NULL;
+    qemuDomainObjEndJob(driver, vm);

  cleanup:
-    if (vm)
-        virObjectUnlock(vm);
+    qemuDomObjEndAPI(&vm);


Aaand same here. I'm starting to think that

void
qemuDomObjEndAPI(virDomainObjPtr *vm)
{
   virObjectUnlock(*vm);
   virObjectUnref(*vm);
   *vm = NULL;
}

should look more like:

void
qemuDomObjEndAPI(virDomainObjPtr *vm)
{
   if (!*vm)
      return;

   virObjectUnlock(*vm);
   virObjectUnref(*vm);
   *vm = NULL;
}


Exactly what I thought above :)

I'm stopping to report this issue assuming the tweak above.


     if (event)
         qemuDomainEventQueue(driver, event);

[...]

@@ -3333,11 +3282,9 @@ qemuDomainSaveFlags(virDomainPtr dom, const char *path, const char *dxml,

     ret = qemuDomainSaveInternal(driver, dom, vm, path, compressed,
                                  dxml, flags);

This function consumes @vm with it's reference and lock, thus ...

-    vm = NULL;

... you cannot remove this line.


I'd rather remove the endAPI call from SaveInternal.

  cleanup:
-    if (vm)
-        virObjectUnlock(vm);
+    qemuDomObjEndAPI(&vm);
     virObjectUnref(cfg);
     return ret;
 }
@@ -3416,15 +3363,13 @@ qemuDomainManagedSave(virDomainPtr dom, unsigned int flags)

     VIR_INFO("Saving state of domain '%s' to '%s'", vm->def->name, name);

-    if ((ret = qemuDomainSaveInternal(driver, dom, vm, name, compressed,
-                                      NULL, flags)) == 0)
+    ret = qemuDomainSaveInternal(driver, dom, vm, name,
+                                 compressed, NULL, flags);

Same as above. qemuDomainSaveInternal consumes VM ...

+    if (ret == 0)
         vm->hasManagedSave = true;

-    vm = NULL;

... so this needs to stay in the code.

-
  cleanup:
-    if (vm)
-        virObjectUnlock(vm);
+    qemuDomObjEndAPI(&vm);
     VIR_FREE(name);
     virObjectUnref(cfg);


[...]


@@ -6744,7 +6647,7 @@ static virDomainPtr qemuDomainDefineXML(virConnectPtr conn, const char *xml)
                                    driver->xmlopt,
                                    0, &oldDef)))
         goto cleanup;
-

Don't remove the empty line for clarity.


I have no idea why I did that :D

+    virObjectRef(vm);
     def = NULL;
     if (virDomainHasDiskMirror(vm)) {
         virReportError(VIR_ERR_BLOCK_COPY_ACTIVE, "%s",

[...]

| Migrations |
--------------

qemuDomainMigratePerform uses qemuDomObjFromDomain but doesn't unlock
the object if ACL check fails. I'll post a patch for that. You'll need
to rebase on top of that.

qemuDomainMigratePerform3Params does unlock on the ACL check, but you
forgot to tweak the check.


Thanks for catching that, I'll gladly rebase that :)



@@ -12638,8 +12491,7 @@ qemuDomainMigrateGetMaxSpeed(virDomainPtr dom,
     ret = 0;

  cleanup:
-    if (vm)
-        virObjectUnlock(vm);
+    qemuDomObjEndAPI(&vm);
     return ret;
 }


Uff, I'm not able to finish this review, so I'm sending this as a part 1
and will continue tomorrow.


Definitely take a rest.  This is terrible patch to review (as it was
for writing it), thanks for doing that.

Martin

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