Although I have not experienced this in real life, there is a possible race condition when creating new device, getting its XML or parent or listing its capabilities. If the nodedev driver is still enumerating devices (in a separate thread) and one of virNodeDeviceGetXMLDesc(), virNodeDeviceGetParent(), virNodeDeviceNumOfCaps(), virNodeDeviceListCaps() or virNodeDeviceCreate() is called then it can lead to spurious results because the device enumeration thread is removing devices from or adding them to the internal list of devices (among with their states). Therefore, wait for things to settle down before proceeding with nodeDeviceCreate(). Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/node_device/node_device_driver.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/node_device/node_device_driver.c b/src/node_device/node_device_driver.c index 5f8995172d..7aee8201e8 100644 --- a/src/node_device/node_device_driver.c +++ b/src/node_device/node_device_driver.c @@ -340,6 +340,9 @@ nodeDeviceGetXMLDesc(virNodeDevicePtr device, virCheckFlags(0, NULL); + if (nodeDeviceInitWait() < 0) + return NULL; + if (!(obj = nodeDeviceObjFindByName(device->name))) return NULL; def = virNodeDeviceObjGetDef(obj); @@ -368,6 +371,9 @@ nodeDeviceGetParent(virNodeDevicePtr device) virNodeDeviceDef *def; char *ret = NULL; + if (nodeDeviceInitWait() < 0) + return NULL; + if (!(obj = nodeDeviceObjFindByName(device->name))) return NULL; def = virNodeDeviceObjGetDef(obj); @@ -395,6 +401,9 @@ nodeDeviceNumOfCaps(virNodeDevicePtr device) virNodeDeviceDef *def; int ret = -1; + if (nodeDeviceInitWait() < 0) + return -1; + if (!(obj = nodeDeviceObjFindByName(device->name))) return -1; def = virNodeDeviceObjGetDef(obj); @@ -423,6 +432,9 @@ nodeDeviceListCaps(virNodeDevicePtr device, int ret = -1; size_t i = 0; + if (nodeDeviceInitWait() < 0) + return -1; + if (!(obj = nodeDeviceObjFindByName(device->name))) return -1; def = virNodeDeviceObjGetDef(obj); @@ -1399,6 +1411,9 @@ nodeDeviceCreate(virNodeDevice *device, virCheckFlags(0, -1); + if (nodeDeviceInitWait() < 0) + return -1; + if (!(obj = nodeDeviceObjFindByName(device->name))) return -1; -- 2.26.3