[libvirt] [PATCH] virDomainObjListAddLocked: fix double free

Marc Hartmayer mhartmay at linux.ibm.com
Mon Aug 27 13:20:13 UTC 2018


If @vm has flagged as "to be removed" virDomainObjListFindByNameLocked
returns NULL (although the definition actually exists). Therefore, the
possibility exits that "virHashAddEntry" will raise the error
"Duplicate key" => virDomainObjListAddObjLocked fails =>
virDomainObjEndAPI(&vm) is called and this leads to a freeing of @def
since @def is already assigned to vm->def. But actually this leads to
a double free since the common usage pattern is that the caller of
virDomainObjListAdd(Locked) is responsible for freeing @def in case of
an error.

Let's fix this by setting vm->def to NULL in case of an error.

Backtrace:

   ➤  bt
   #0  virFree (ptrptr=0x7575757575757575)
   #1  0x000003ffb5b25b3e in virDomainResourceDefFree
   #2  0x000003ffb5b37c34 in virDomainDefFree
   #3  0x000003ff9123f734 in qemuDomainDefineXMLFlags
   #4  0x000003ff9123f7f4 in qemuDomainDefineXML
   #5  0x000003ffb5cd2c84 in virDomainDefineXML
   #6  0x000000011745aa82 in remoteDispatchDomainDefineXML
   ...

Reviewed-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk at linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay at linux.ibm.com>
---
 src/conf/virdomainobjlist.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/conf/virdomainobjlist.c b/src/conf/virdomainobjlist.c
index 52171594f34f..805fe9440afe 100644
--- a/src/conf/virdomainobjlist.c
+++ b/src/conf/virdomainobjlist.c
@@ -329,8 +329,10 @@ virDomainObjListAddLocked(virDomainObjListPtr doms,
             goto cleanup;
         vm->def = def;
 
-        if (virDomainObjListAddObjLocked(doms, vm) < 0)
+        if (virDomainObjListAddObjLocked(doms, vm) < 0) {
+            vm->def = NULL;
             goto error;
+        }
     }
  cleanup:
     return vm;
-- 
2.13.4




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