[libvirt] [PATCHv2 1/2] virDomainSaveXML: Reject domains which name contain '/'

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Thu Feb 14 02:48:32 UTC 2013


Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 11:44 AM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>
>   
>>> Seems this should be in a more "general" location. Would the same rules apply to
>>> other objects (networks, storage, etc.)?  What other characters should be avoided? 
>>> Having a comma, semi-colon, colon, etc. could have interesting results.
>>>       
>> Yeah, comma is an interesting one for qemu since that delimits option
>> subarguments.  E.g. trying to start a qemu instance with name 'foo,bar'
>> results in
>>
>> $ virsh start "foo,bar"
>> error: Failed to start domain foo,bar
>> error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor:
>> Unknown subargument bar to -name
>>     
>
> That's an independent bug - we already have a function for properly
> quoting commas when passing to qemu; if we would use that function
> properly, the command line would be -name foo,,bar, at which point qemu
> would be using 'foo,bar' internally anywhere the name is needed.
>   

I hacked up a patch to quote the comma and qemu still rejects it

virsh start "foo,bar"
error: Failed to start domain foo,bar
error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor:
qemu-kvm: -name foo,,bar: invalid option

I should have first tried invoking qemu directly instead of fiddling
with a patch

qemu-kvm -name foo,,bar
Unknown subargument ,bar to -name

This is with 1.4 rc1 btw.

Regards,
Jim




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