[Libvir] PATCH: BZ 426425: Fix truncated reading of config files

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The virConfReadFile  API  has a fixed 4096 byte buffer it reads the config
> file into, regardless of the config file size and silently drops any data
> exceeding this. 

Ah, the joys of C ...

> +    if ((ret = fread(*buf, st.st_size, 1, fh)) != 1) {
> +        free(buf);
> +        buf = NULL;

I wonder if you meant to write *buf = NULL here?

Rest of the patch +1

Rich.

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