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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] The dom destroy path is doing a dom_

To: Dan Smith <danms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-changelog] The dom destroy path is doing a dom_get on a non-existent domain to
From: Robert Read <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:31:19 -0700
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On Sep 14, 2005, at 18:07 , Dan Smith wrote:



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<snip>


It then handles the exception in dom_get by returning None, which
callers already expect to mean failure.


This is not actually true, right?  There are several places in the
code that blindly use the return value of dom_get(), assuming that it
is actually anything but None.  The closest example is in the update()
function, several lines down:

  self.info = info or dom_get(self.domid)

Ah, my bad. I misinterpreted this as a boolean expression at first glance. Note, dom_get was already returning None when the domain wasn't found, but another exception was preventing it from getting that far. We're just moving the exceptions around, now.


  self.memory = self.info['mem_kb'] / 1024

Clearly, we need to decide what behavior dom_get() is expected to
have.  Do we expect it to return None if the domid is not found, or do
we expect the domain we're asking about to always be present
(i.e. throw an exception if not)?

If nobody has strong feelings either way, I'll work up a patch to fix
it.

My original fix was to allow dom_get to raise the exception, and I just ignored it in delete(), since we are not expecting to find the domain in the first place there. On second thought, this was probably a better approach, since the other uses of dom_get would be better off if they got exceptions instead of None.

robert


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