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    Prevent crash from dlclose() of libvirt.so · 8e44e559
    Daniel P. Berrange 提交于
    When libvirt calls virInitialize it creates a thread local
    for the virErrorPtr storage, and registers a callback to
    cleanup memory when a thread exits. When libvirt is dlclose()d
    or otherwise made non-resident, the callback function is
    removed from memory, but the thread local may still exist
    and if a thread later exists, it will invoke the callback
    and SEGV. There may also be other thread locals with callbacks
    pointing to libvirt code, so it is in general never safe to
    unload libvirt.so from memory once initialized.
    
    To allow dlclose() to succeed, but keep libvirt.so resident
    in memory, link with '-z nodelete'. This issue was first
    found with the libvirt CIM provider, but can potentially
    hit many of the dynamic language bindings which all ultimately
    involve dlopen() in some way, either on libvirt.so itself,
    or on the glue code for the binding which in turns links
    to libvirt
    
    * configure.ac, src/Makefile.am: Ensure libvirt.so is linked
      with -z nodelete
    * cfg.mk, .gitignore, tests/Makefile.am, tests/shunloadhelper.c,
      tests/shunloadtest.c: A test case to unload libvirt while
      a thread is still running.
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