[libvirt] [PATCH] conf: Don't deref NULL actual network in virDomainNetGetActualHostdev()

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Thu Sep 5 07:58:38 UTC 2013


On 09/04/13 17:45, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/04/2013 09:37 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
>> In commit 991270db99690 I've used virDomainNetGetActualHostdev() to get
>> the actual hostdev from a network when removing the network from the
>> list to avoid leaving the hostdev in the list. I didn't notice that this
>> function doesn't check if the actual network is allocated and
>> dereferences it. This crashes the daemon when cleaning up a domain
>> object in early startup phases when the actual network definition isn't
>> allocated. When the actual definition isn't present, the hostdev that
>> might correspond to it won't be present anyways so it's safe to return
>> NULL.
>>
>> Thanks to Cole Robinson for noticing this problem.
>> ---
>>  src/conf/domain_conf.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> ACK.
> 

Pushed; Thanks.

Peter


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