Re: "kobject add failed"

[Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>]

On 3/5/07 17:45, "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@amd.com> wrote:

> I haven't seen it before. Any idea why this would happen now, and not
> before?

Because now you are doing two save/restores in a loop at the same time.

> Why would it happen only when doing two save/restore sessions (of
> different domains of course) on the same machine (which I have done
> before - but not that recently).

It looks like there might be a race in drivers/net/tun.c:tun_set_iff(). Two
invocations of ioctl(TUNSETIFF) can both resolve "tap%d" to "tap0" (because
both observe that tap0 is not registered). The second one to execute
register_netdevice() then bugs out because the interface already exists!

However, the invocation of tun_set_iff() is wrapped in rtnl_lock()/unlock()
so should be concurrency safe. Still, this is where I would concentrate my
search if I were you.

 -- Keir


> I got a second backtrace like that. I've since tried to avoid it by
> removing the (unnecessary) vif= in the setup of the simple-guest (it's
> got no code to deal with network devices anyway).