[libvirt] [PATCH] libxl: fix memory corruption introduced by commit b55cc5f4e

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Mon Aug 25 23:41:42 UTC 2014


Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/25/2014 05:01 PM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>   
>> Commit b55cc5f4e did a shallow copy of libxl_{sdl,vnc}_info from the
>> domain config to the build info, which resulted in double-freeing
>> strings contained in the structures during cleanup, which later
>> resulted in a libvirtd crash.  Fix by performing a deep copy of the
>> structure, VIR_STRDUP'ing embedded strings instead of simply copying
>> their pointers.
>>
>> Fixes the following issue reported on the libvirt dev list
>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-August/msg01112.html
>> Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
>> ---
>>  src/libxl/libxl_conf.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
>>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>     
>
> ACK.
>   

Thanks; Pushed.

Regards,
Jim




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