[libvirt] [PATCH 2/4] snapshot: conf: Avoid dereferencing NULL snapshot parent

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Jan 21 19:04:53 UTC 2013


On 01/21/2013 03:53 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
>> I'm slightly against this patch as I prefer a crashing daemon to silent
>> propagation of bug.
> 
> Hm, yeah. I agree. The snapshot metaroot patch that caused this problem
> expects that all snapshots except the metaroot have parents so this may
> disclose other potential bugs.

Hmm, I wonder if the real bug is that we somehow earlier managed to
create a snapshot without setting the metaroot as its initial parent.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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