Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: do not fail device removal if backend domain is gone

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 12:41:58PM +0100, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 11:27:04AM +0000, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > I'm also wondering, if you jump to 'out' here, you avoid the call to
> > libxl__xs_transaction_commit and instead end up calling
> > libxl__xs_transaction_abort, which means the above call to
> > libxl__xs_path_cleanup will not be committed to xenstore, is this
> > really desired?
> >
> > It seems to me libxl might leak xenstore frontend entries in that
> > case.
> 
> That call is only if aodev->force. In other cases cleanup is done in
> device_hotplug_done()->libxl__device_destroy(), which have its own 
> transaction.

Hm, right, but this would still be incorrect in the force case then?
Or is this simply not needed for the 'force' case?

Thanks, Roger

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