Commit id '4313fead' added a call to virDomainPanicCheckABIStability() which did not check whether the panic device existed before making a call to virDomainDeviceInfoCheckABIStability() which ended up segfaulting: Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f5332837700 (LWP 10964)): (src=<optimized out>, dst=<optimized out>) at conf/domain_conf.c:13007 (dst=<optimized out>, src=<optimized out>) at conf/domain_conf.c:13712 (src=<optimized out>, dst=<optimized out>) at conf/domain_conf.c:14056 (domain=domain@entry=0x7f53000057c0, vm=vm@entry=0x7f53000036d0, defptr=defptr@entry=0x7f5332836978, snap=snap@entry=0x7f5332836970, update_current=update_current@entry=0x7f5332836962, flags=flags@entry=1) at conf/snapshot_conf.c:1230 (domain=0x7f53000057c0, xmlDesc=<optimized out>, flags=1) at qemu/qemu_driver.c:12719 (domain=domain@entry=0x7f53000057c0, xmlDesc=0x7f53000081d0 "<domainsnapshot>\n <name>snap2</name>\n <description>new-desc</description>\n <state>running</state>\n <parent>\n <name>snap1</name>\n </parent>\n <creationTime>1387487268</creationTime>\n <memory s"..., flags=1) at libvirt.c:19695 ... (gdb) up 3 (gdb) print *other->def->dom $2 = {virtType = 2, id = -1, .. ... rng = 0x0, panic = 0x0, namespaceData = 0x0,... ... (gdb) print *def->dom $3 = {virtType = 2, id = -1, ... ... rng = 0x0, panic = 0x0, namespaceData = 0x0,... ... (gdb) Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- NOTE: Optionally the call could be changed to: "if (src->panic && !virDomainPanicCheckABIStability(...)" I went with what I did following the RNGDefCheckABIStability. src/conf/domain_conf.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c index 0079234..c86af9a 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c @@ -13709,6 +13709,9 @@ static bool virDomainPanicCheckABIStability(virDomainPanicDefPtr src, virDomainPanicDefPtr dst) { + if (!src && !dst) + return true; + return virDomainDeviceInfoCheckABIStability(&src->info, &dst->info); } -- 1.8.3.1