[libvirt] PATCH: Fix XM driver handling of disks without source file
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Fri Nov 28 11:23:52 UTC 2008
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:30:07PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:20:26PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > It is possible for disks to be listed without a source file against
> > them, eg a CDROM device with no media loaded. The XenD driver handles
> > this, but the XM driver incorrectly generates XML with a <source file=''/>
> > element instead of omitting the element entirely. This causes a bogus
> > SXEXPR to be sent to XenD when starting the domain. This patch does
> > three things
> >
> > - Makes the generic domain_conf.c XML parser accept XML docs with
> > a bogus <source file=''/> and convert the source to NULL, instead
> > of passing along the empty string "". This protects against broken
> > apps
> >
> > - Makes the XM driver correctly generate XML in the first place,
> > so omitting the <source> tag entirely. This is the root cause fix
> >
> > - Adds a test case for the XM driver to validate handling of devices
> > with a source file
>
> sounds and looks fine by me,
Thanks, committed this fix.
Daniel
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