Fix: keep metadata channel attr in UST session

[lttng-tools.git] / src / bin / lttng-sessiond / channel.c

diff --git a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/channel.c b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/channel.c
index 817100ff449128e2f71705623d6ac4a39d95e0f4..1d04b1fcfffd057d3346a40fc3be9abcae29b694 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/channel.c
+++ b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/channel.c
@@ -366,7 +366,18 @@ int channel_ust_create(struct ltt_ust_session *usess,
 
        /* Adding the channel to the channel hash table. */
        rcu_read_lock();
-       lttng_ht_add_unique_str(usess->domain_global.channels, &uchan->node);
+       if (strncmp(uchan->name, DEFAULT_METADATA_NAME,
+                               sizeof(uchan->name))) {
+               lttng_ht_add_unique_str(usess->domain_global.channels, &uchan->node);
+       } else {
+               /*
+                * Copy channel attribute to session if this is metadata so if NO
+                * application exists we can access that data in the shadow copy during
+                * the global update of newly registered application.
+                */
+               memcpy(&usess->metadata_attr, &uchan->attr,
+                               sizeof(usess->metadata_attr));
+       }
        rcu_read_unlock();
 
        DBG2("Channel %s created successfully", uchan->name);