[libvirt] [PATCH] network: fix crash when portgroup has no name

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Wed Nov 28 05:08:31 UTC 2012


This resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=879473

The name attribute is required for portgroup elements (yes, the RNG
specifies that), and there is code in libvirt that assumes it is
non-null.  Unfortunately, the portgroup parsing function wasn't
checking for lack of portgroup. One adverse result of this was that
attempts to update a network by adding a portgroup with no name would
cause libvirtd to segfault. For example:

   virsh net-update default add portgroup "<portgroup default='yes'/>"

This patch causes virNetworkPortGroupParseXML to fail if no name is
specified, thus avoiding any later problems.
---
 src/conf/network_conf.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/conf/network_conf.c b/src/conf/network_conf.c
index 228951d..6ce2e63 100644
--- a/src/conf/network_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/network_conf.c
@@ -1175,6 +1175,12 @@ virNetworkPortGroupParseXML(virPortGroupDefPtr def,
 
     /* grab raw data from XML */
     def->name = virXPathString("string(./@name)", ctxt);
+    if (!def->name) {
+        virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, "%s",
+                       _("Missing required name attribute in portgroup"));
+        goto error;
+    }
+
     isDefault = virXPathString("string(./@default)", ctxt);
     def->isDefault = isDefault && STRCASEEQ(isDefault, "yes");
 
-- 
1.7.11.7




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