Re: [PATCHv2] waitpid: improve safety

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On 10/24/2011 01:58 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:30:28PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
Based on a report by Coverity.  waitpid() can leak resources if it
fails with EINTR, so it should never be used without checking return
status.  But we already have a helper function that does that, so
use it in more places.


+++ b/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
  #include "util.h"
  #include "virfile.h"
  #include "virpidfile.h"
+#include "command.h"

  #define VIR_FROM_THIS VIR_FROM_LXC

@@ -515,7 +516,8 @@ ignorable_epoll_accept_errno(int errnum)
  static bool
  lxcPidGone(pid_t container)
  {
-    waitpid(container, NULL, WNOHANG);
+    if (waitpid(container, NULL, WNOHANG)<  0)
+        return false;

      if (kill(container, 0)<  0&&
          errno == ESRCH)
@@ -1021,14 +1023,8 @@ cleanup:
          VIR_FORCE_CLOSE(loopDevs[i]);
      VIR_FREE(loopDevs);

-    if (container>  1) {
-        int status;
-        kill(container, SIGTERM);
-        if (!(waitpid(container,&status, WNOHANG) == 0&&
-            WIFEXITED(status)))
-            kill(container, SIGKILL);
-        waitpid(container, NULL, 0);
-    }
+    virPidAbort(container);
+
      return rc;
  }


This entire method goes away on my patches here

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-October/msg00974.html

I guess I'd better review that, then :)


ACK to the other chunks

OK, I split out the lxc_controller fixes (I'm saving them on my tree, though, until I know that your patches are in), and pushed the rest.

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