[libvirt] [PATCH] snapshot: Don't hose list on deletion failure

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Oct 18 00:30:04 UTC 2018


If qemuDomainSnapshotDiscard() fails for any reason (rare,
but possible with an ill-timed ENOMEM or if
qemuDomainSnapshotForEachQcow2() has problems talking to the
qemu guest monitor), then an attempt to retry the snapshot
deletion API will crash because we didn't undo the effects
of virDomainSnapshotDropParent() temporarily rearranging the
internal list structures, and the second attempt to drop
parents will dereference NULL.  Fix it by instead only
rearranging the internal list on success.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
---

Found by accident, since I copied this code to my checkpoint
code and hit the segfault there.  This one has been latent
for years, but is not a security bug since there is no escalation
if you already have sufficient privilege to delete snapshots.

 src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
index 3f143e91c1..9a3f2a090d 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
@@ -16699,8 +16699,9 @@ qemuDomainSnapshotDelete(virDomainSnapshotPtr snapshot,
         snap->first_child = NULL;
         ret = 0;
     } else {
-        virDomainSnapshotDropParent(snap);
         ret = qemuDomainSnapshotDiscard(driver, vm, snap, true, metadata_only);
+        if (ret == 0)
+            virDomainSnapshotDropParent(snap);
     }

  endjob:
-- 
2.17.2




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