Re: [PATCH v2] vnc: threaded server depends on io-thread

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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The threaded VNC servers messed up with QEMU fd handlers without
> any kind of locking, and that can cause some nasty race conditions.
>
> The IO-Thread provides appropriate locking primitives to avoid that.
> This patch makes CONFIG_VNC_THREAD depends on CONFIG_IO_THREAD,
> and add lock and unlock calls around the two faulty calls.
>
> Thanks to Jan Kiszka for helping me solve this issue.
>
> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> The previous patch was total crap, introduced race conditions,
> and probably crashs on client disconnections.

Forget that one too, also deadlock on vnc_jobs_join(). I'll need some
more time to fix that.

-- 
Corentin Chary
http://xf.iksaif.net
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