[libvirt] [PATCH v2] virsh: Correctly initialize libvirt

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Tue May 17 10:50:48 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:05:36 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/16/2011 08:59 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > virsh didn't call virInitialize(), which (among other things)
> > initializes virLastErr thread local variable. As a result of that, virsh
> > could just segfault in virEventRegisterDefaultImpl() since that is the
> > first call that touches (resets) virLastErr.
> > 
> > I have no idea what lucky coincidence made this bug visible but I was
> > able to reproduce it in 100% cases but only in one specific environment
> > which included building in sandbox.
> > ---
> >  src/libvirt.c |    3 +++
> >  tools/virsh.c |   13 +++++++++----
> >  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> ACK.

Pushed, thanks.

Jirka




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