Re: [PATCH 4/5] Retry veth device creation on failure

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On 10/02/2013 05:31 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The veth device creation code run in two steps, first it looks
> for two free veth device names, then it runs ip link to create
> the veth pair. There is an obvious race between finding free
> names and creating them, when guests are started in parallel.
> 
> Rewrite the code to loop and re-try creation if it fails, to
> deal with the race condition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  src/util/virnetdevveth.c | 151 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  1 file changed, 92 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)

>  
>  /* Functions */
> +
> +static int virNetDevVethExists(int devNum)
> +{
> +    int ret;
> +    char *path = NULL;
> +    if (virAsprintf(&path, "/sys/class/net/veth%d/", devNum) < 0)
> +        return -1;
> +    ret = virFileExists(path) ? 1 : 0;

Looks a bit funny for converting a bool to int.  I probably would have
skipped the ternary; but what you did is not wrong.

>  
> -    if (virAsprintf(veth, "veth%d", devNum) < 0)
> -        return -1;
> +    for (devNum = startDev ; devNum < MAX_DEV_NUM ; devNum++) {

How did this get past 'make syntax-check'?  We cleaned up the code base
to avoid space before ';'.

ACK with the syntax cleaned up.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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