On 1/9/2011 9:09 PM, John Weekes wrote:
> stubdom-dm uses "grep" on "xm list" output to determine whether it is 
> already running. The existing behavior is to use "grep $domname-dm" 
> but this will result in a false-positive in the case of another domU 
> running whose name ends with the full new name; for instance, if 
> "abctest-dm" is running, a new "test-dm" will spin forever, waiting 
> for it the end.
>
> Any easy fix is to have it use "grep -w" instead of "grep", searching 
> for the whole word only.
>
> It also might be worth considering a switch to "xl list" from "xm 
> list", here and in other places.
>
> This bug appears to exist in xen-4.0-testing, as well.
>
> Since it's a one-liner, a signed-off may not be needed, but just in 
> case..
>
> Signed-off-by: John Weekes <lists.xen@nuclearfallout.net>

Here's a corrected version done against the repo (i.e., with corrected 
paths).

diff -r 7b4c82f07281 stubdom/stubdom-dm
--- a/stubdom/stubdom-dm        Wed Jan 05 23:54:15 2011 +0000
+++ b/stubdom/stubdom-dm        Mon Jan 10 02:28:48 2011 -0500
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
  ############
  # stubdomain
  # Wait for any previous stubdom to terminate
-while xm list | grep $domname-dm
+while xm list | grep -w $domname-dm
  do
         sleep 1
  done

-John