Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] lua: improve handle closing

Swap guestfs_close and free_per_handle_table, so first the handle is removed from the table and then freed. This avoids passing a stale pointer to free_per_handle_table (which right now is not an issue, but better make sure it is never so). --- Maybe this could also fix the case described by the comment there, as when a new 'g' with the address of an old 'g' would be created, the old 'g' is now already gone from the per-handle table. generator/lua.ml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/generator/lua.ml b/generator/lua.ml index 5d5619c..fa6e9f2 100644 --- a/generator/lua.ml +++ b/generator/lua.ml @@ -168,13 +168,13 @@ guestfs_lua_create (lua_State *L) static void close_handle (lua_State *L, guestfs_h *g) { - guestfs_close (g); /* There is a potential and hard-to-solve race here: If another * thread allocates another 'g' at the same address, then * get_per_handle_table might be called with the same address * before we call free_per_handle_table here. XXX */ free_per_handle_table (L, g); + guestfs_close (g); }