[PATCH] Fix deadlock when the RPC program is unknown

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>

Commit 597fe3cee68f561a181967b59a87b4e5c5880c4c accidentally
introduced a deadlock when reporting an unknown RPC program.
The virNetServerDispatchNewMessage method is called with
the client locked, and must therefore not attempt to send
any RPC messages back to the client. Only once the incoming
message is passed off to the virNetServerHandleJob worker
is it safe to start sending messages back

* src/rpc/virnetserver.c: Delay checking for unknown RPC
  program until in worker thread
---
 src/rpc/virnetserver.c |   22 ++++++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/rpc/virnetserver.c b/src/rpc/virnetserver.c
index d71ed18..9588077 100644
--- a/src/rpc/virnetserver.c
+++ b/src/rpc/virnetserver.c
@@ -133,6 +133,14 @@ static void virNetServerHandleJob(void *jobOpaque, void *opaque)
     VIR_DEBUG("server=%p client=%p message=%p prog=%p",
               srv, job->client, job->msg, job->prog);
 
+    if (!job->prog) {
+        if (virNetServerProgramUnknownError(job->client,
+                                            job->msg,
+                                            &job->msg->header) < 0)
+            goto error;
+        goto cleanup;
+    }
+
     if (virNetServerProgramDispatch(job->prog,
                                     srv,
                                     job->client,
@@ -142,6 +150,8 @@ static void virNetServerHandleJob(void *jobOpaque, void *opaque)
     virNetServerLock(srv);
     virNetServerProgramFree(job->prog);
     virNetServerUnlock(srv);
+
+cleanup:
     virNetServerClientFree(job->client);
     VIR_FREE(job);
     return;
@@ -184,18 +194,14 @@ static int virNetServerDispatchNewMessage(virNetServerClientPtr client,
         }
     }
 
-    if (!prog) {
-        virNetServerProgramUnknownError(client, msg, &msg->header);
-        goto cleanup;
+    if (prog) {
+        virNetServerProgramRef(prog);
+        job->prog = prog;
+        priority = virNetServerProgramGetPriority(prog, msg->header.proc);
     }
 
-    virNetServerProgramRef(prog);
-    job->prog = prog;
-    priority = virNetServerProgramGetPriority(prog, msg->header.proc);
-
     ret = virThreadPoolSendJob(srv->workers, priority, job);
 
-cleanup:
     if (ret < 0) {
         VIR_FREE(job);
         virNetServerProgramFree(prog);
-- 
1.7.6.2

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