[libvirt] [PATCH] libxl: avoid crashing if calling `virsh numatune' on inactive domain

Dario Faggioli dario.faggioli at citrix.com
Fri Dec 20 15:29:47 UTC 2013


by, in libxlDomainGetNumaParameters(), calling libxl_bitmap_init() as soon as
possible, which avoids getting to 'cleanup:', where libxl_bitmap_dispose()
happens, without having initialized the nodemap, and hence crashing after some
invalid free()-s:

 # ./daemon/libvirtd -v
 *** Error in `/home/xen/libvirt.git/daemon/.libs/lt-libvirtd': munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x00007fdd42592666 ***
 ======= Backtrace: =========
 /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x7bbe7)[0x7fdd3f767be7]
 /lib64/libxenlight.so.4.3(libxl_bitmap_dispose+0xd)[0x7fdd2c88c045]
 /home/xen/libvirt.git/daemon/.libs/../../src/.libs/libvirt_driver_libxl.so(+0x12d26)[0x7fdd2caccd26]
 /home/xen/libvirt.git/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(virDomainGetNumaParameters+0x15c)[0x7fdd4247898c]
 /home/xen/libvirt.git/daemon/.libs/lt-libvirtd(+0x1d9a2)[0x7fdd42ecc9a2]
 /home/xen/libvirt.git/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(virNetServerProgramDispatch+0x3da)[0x7fdd424e9eaa]
 /home/xen/libvirt.git/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(+0x1a6f38)[0x7fdd424e3f38]
 /home/xen/libvirt.git/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(+0xa81e5)[0x7fdd423e51e5]
 /home/xen/libvirt.git/src/.libs/libvirt.so.0(+0xa783e)[0x7fdd423e483e]
 /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x7c53)[0x7fdd3febbc53]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7fdd3f7e1dbd]

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggili <dario.faggioli at citrix.com>
Cc: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson at eu.citrix.com>
---
 src/libxl/libxl_driver.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
index 29aa6c7..d91744f 100644
--- a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
+++ b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
@@ -3958,6 +3958,8 @@ libxlDomainGetNumaParameters(virDomainPtr dom,
      * the filtering on behalf of older clients that can't parse it. */
     flags &= ~VIR_TYPED_PARAM_STRING_OKAY;
 
+    libxl_bitmap_init(&nodemap);
+
     if (!(vm = libxlDomObjFromDomain(dom)))
         goto cleanup;
 
@@ -3972,8 +3974,6 @@ libxlDomainGetNumaParameters(virDomainPtr dom,
 
     priv = vm->privateData;
 
-    libxl_bitmap_init(&nodemap);
-
     if ((*nparams) == 0) {
         *nparams = LIBXL_NUMA_NPARAM;
         ret = 0;




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