[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 6/6] monitor: avoid potential dead-lock when cleaning up

["Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>]

When a monitor is connected to a Spice chardev, the monitor cleanup
can dead-lock:

 #0  0x00007f43446637fd in __lll_lock_wait () at /lib64/libpthread.so.0
 #1  0x00007f434465ccf4 in pthread_mutex_lock () at /lib64/libpthread.so.0
 #2  0x0000556dd79f22ba in qemu_mutex_lock_impl (mutex=0x556dd81c9220 <monitor_lock>, file=0x556dd7ae3648 "/home/elmarco/src/qq/monitor.c", line=645) at /home/elmarco/src/qq/util/qemu-thread-posix.c:66
 #3  0x0000556dd7431bd5 in monitor_qapi_event_queue (event=QAPI_EVENT_SPICE_DISCONNECTED, qdict=0x556dd9abc850, errp=0x7fffb7bbddd8) at /home/elmarco/src/qq/monitor.c:645
 #4  0x0000556dd79d476b in qapi_event_send_spice_disconnected (server=0x556dd98ee760, client=0x556ddaaa8560, errp=0x556dd82180d0 <error_abort>) at qapi/qapi-events-ui.c:149
 #5  0x0000556dd7870fc1 in channel_event (event=3, info=0x556ddad1b590) at /home/elmarco/src/qq/ui/spice-core.c:235
 #6  0x00007f434560a6bb in reds_handle_channel_event (reds=<optimized out>, event=3, info=0x556ddad1b590) at reds.c:316
 #7  0x00007f43455f393b in main_dispatcher_self_handle_channel_event (info=0x556ddad1b590, event=3, self=0x556dd9a7d8c0) at main-dispatcher.c:197
 #8  0x00007f43455f393b in main_dispatcher_channel_event (self=0x556dd9a7d8c0, event=event@entry=3, info=0x556ddad1b590) at main-dispatcher.c:197
 #9  0x00007f4345612833 in red_stream_push_channel_event (s=s@entry=0x556ddae2ef40, event=event@entry=3) at red-stream.c:414
 #10 0x00007f434561286b in red_stream_free (s=0x556ddae2ef40) at red-stream.c:388
 #11 0x00007f43455f9ddc in red_channel_client_finalize (object=0x556dd9bb21a0) at red-channel-client.c:347
 #12 0x00007f434b5f9fb9 in g_object_unref () at /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 #13 0x00007f43455fc212 in red_channel_client_push (rcc=0x556dd9bb21a0) at red-channel-client.c:1341
 #14 0x0000556dd76081ba in spice_port_set_fe_open (chr=0x556dd9925e20, fe_open=0) at /home/elmarco/src/qq/chardev/spice.c:241
 #15 0x0000556dd796d74a in qemu_chr_fe_set_open (be=0x556dd9a37c00, fe_open=0) at /home/elmarco/src/qq/chardev/char-fe.c:340
 #16 0x0000556dd796d4d9 in qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers (b=0x556dd9a37c00, fd_can_read=0x0, fd_read=0x0, fd_event=0x0, be_change=0x0, opaque=0x0, context=0x0, set_open=true) at /home/elmarco/src/qq/chardev/char-fe.c:280
 #17 0x0000556dd796d359 in qemu_chr_fe_deinit (b=0x556dd9a37c00, del=false) at /home/elmarco/src/qq/chardev/char-fe.c:233
 #18 0x0000556dd7432240 in monitor_data_destroy (mon=0x556dd9a37c00) at /home/elmarco/src/qq/monitor.c:786
 #19 0x0000556dd743b968 in monitor_cleanup () at /home/elmarco/src/qq/monitor.c:4683
 #20 0x0000556dd75ce776 in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fffb7bbe458, envp=0x7fffb7bbe478) at /home/elmarco/src/qq/vl.c:4660

Because spice code tries to emit a "disconnected" signal on the
monitors. Fix this dead-lock by releasing the monitor lock for
flush/destroy.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
---
 monitor.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
index 7fe89daa87..b55e604a98 100644
--- a/monitor.c
+++ b/monitor.c
@@ -4643,8 +4643,10 @@ void monitor_cleanup(void)
     monitor_destroyed = true;
     QTAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE(mon, &mon_list, entry, next) {
         QTAILQ_REMOVE(&mon_list, mon, entry);
+        qemu_mutex_unlock(&monitor_lock);
         monitor_flush(mon);
         monitor_data_destroy(mon);
+        qemu_mutex_lock(&monitor_lock);
         g_free(mon);
     }
     qemu_mutex_unlock(&monitor_lock);
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