Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] xen: fix memory corruption in legacy driver

On 08/05/2013 10:39 AM, Jim Fehlig wrote: > Commit 632180d1 introduced memory corruption in xenDaemonListDefinedDomains > by starting to populate the names array at index -1, causing all sorts > of havoc in libvirtd such as aborts like the following > > *** Error in `/usr/sbin/libvirtd': double free or corruption (out): 0x00007fffe00ccf20 *** > ======= Backtrace: ========= > /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x7abf6)[0x7ffff3fa0bf6] > /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x7b973)[0x7ffff3fa1973] > /lib64/libc.so.6(xdr_array+0xde)[0x7ffff403cbae] > /usr/sbin/libvirtd(+0x50251)[0x5555555a4251] > /lib64/libc.so.6(xdr_free+0x15)[0x7ffff403ccd5] > /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0(+0x1fad34)[0x7ffff76b1d34] > /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0(virNetServerProgramDispatch+0x1fc)[0x7ffff76b16f1] > /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0(+0x1f214a)[0x7ffff76a914a] > /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0(+0x1f222d)[0x7ffff76a922d] > /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0(+0xbcc4f)[0x7ffff7573c4f] > /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0(+0xbc5e5)[0x7ffff75735e5] > /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x7e0f)[0x7ffff48f7e0f] > /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7ffff400e7dd] > > Fix by initializing ret to 0 and only setting to error on failure path. > --- > src/xen/xend_internal.c | 7 +++---- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > ACK.