[libvirt] [PATCH] conf: initialize character pointer xml value to avoid random crash

[Luyao Huang]

If the code jump to the cleanup before assagin value to xml pointer,
libvirtd may get crashed when try to free an uninitialized pointer.

backtrace:

0  0x00007ffff428d59c in free () from /lib64/libc.so.6
1  0x00007ffff721314a in virFree (ptrptr=ptrptr at entry=0x7fffc67f1b00) at util/viralloc.c:582
2  0x00007ffff7345ac4 in virDomainConfNWFilterInstantiate (vmname=<optimized out>,
   vmuuid=vmuuid at entry=0x7fffc0181ca8 "߉\237\\۔H\262\206z\340\302f\265\233z", net=<optimized out>,
   ignoreExists=ignoreExists at entry=true) at conf/domain_nwfilter.c:122
3  0x00007fffca5a77f6 in qemuProcessFiltersInstantiate (ignoreExists=true, def=0x7fffc0181ca0) at qemu/qemu_process.c:3028
4  qemuProcessReconnect (opaque=<optimized out>) at qemu/qemu_process.c:7653
5  0x00007ffff72c4895 in virThreadHelper (data=<optimized out>) at util/virthread.c:206
6  0x00007ffff45dcdd5 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
7  0x00007ffff4305ead in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6

Signed-off-by: Luyao Huang <lhuang at redhat.com>
---
 src/conf/domain_nwfilter.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/conf/domain_nwfilter.c b/src/conf/domain_nwfilter.c
index 948b324..24b5f42 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_nwfilter.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_nwfilter.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ virDomainConfNWFilterInstantiate(const char *vmname,
     virConnectPtr conn = virGetConnectNWFilter();
     virNWFilterBindingDefPtr def = NULL;
     virNWFilterBindingPtr binding = NULL;
-    char *xml;
+    char *xml = NULL;
     int ret = -1;
 
     VIR_DEBUG("vmname=%s portdev=%s filter=%s ignoreExists=%d",
-- 
1.8.3.1