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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>,
	Andreas Faerber <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] qtest: kill QEMU process on g_assert() failure
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:07:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530330F9.5070608@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140218090504.GB32585@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com>

Il 18/02/2014 10:05, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
>> > SIGABRT is normally synchronous enough: it's sent by abort().  But of
>> > course, nothing stops the user from kill -ABRT.  Or GLib from calling
>> > abort() in some place where an attempt to reenter it crashes & burns.
>> > Not sure I'd care, but I'm pretty sure I don't care for freeing stuff on
>> > exit :)
> Yes, SIGABRT is synchronous for all purposes.  So the only danger is
> that g_string_free() or g_free() could fail while we're in
> g_assert(false).  But they don't, which makes sense because they are
> totally unrelated to g_assert() and therefore can handle re-entrancy.

If malloc aborts due to a double free or other similar problem, you may 
risk reentering it.

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-18 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-17 15:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] qtest: avoid pidfile and QEMU process leaks Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-17 15:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] qtest: drop unused child_pid field Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-17 15:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: make QEMU our direct child process Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-17 16:44   ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-18  9:00     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-18  9:53       ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-17 15:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] qtest: kill QEMU process on g_assert() failure Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-17 16:16   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 17:00     ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-18  9:05       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-18 10:05         ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-18 10:23           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-18 10:43             ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-18 14:38               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-18 10:07         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-02-18 10:17           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2014-02-18 10:23             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 16:49   ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-17 16:56     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-18  9:17     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-18  9:55       ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-18 14:44         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-18 14:56       ` Peter Maydell
2014-02-18 10:02     ` Markus Armbruster
2014-02-18 14:38       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-18 14:52         ` Markus Armbruster

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