Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] virconf: Handle conf file without ending newline

$ echo -n 'log_level=1' > ~/.config/libvirt/libvirtd.conf $ libvirtd --timeout=10 2014-10-10 10:30:56.394+0000: 6626: info : libvirt version: 1.1.3.6, package: 1.fc20 (Fedora Project, 2014-09-08-17:50:42, buildvm-05.phx2.fedoraproject.org) 2014-10-10 10:30:56.394+0000: 6626: error : main:1261 : Can't load config file: configuration file syntax error: /home/rjones/.config/libvirt/libvirtd.conf:1: expecting a value: /home/rjones/.config/libvirt/libvirtd.conf Rather than try to fix this in the depths of the parser, just catch the case when a config file doesn't end in a newline, and manually append a newline to the content before parsing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151409 --- src/util/virconf.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/virconf.c b/src/util/virconf.c index 5915bc2..9b19d54 100644 --- a/src/util/virconf.c +++ b/src/util/virconf.c @@ -777,8 +777,16 @@ virConfReadFile(const char *filename, unsigned int flags) if ((len = virFileReadAll(filename, MAX_CONFIG_FILE_SIZE, &content)) < 0) return NULL; + if (len && len < MAX_CONFIG_FILE_SIZE && content[len - 1] != '\n') { + VIR_DEBUG("appending newline to busted config file %s", filename); + if (VIR_REALLOC_N(content, len + 1) < 0)

+ goto cleanup; + content[len++] = '\n';

+ } +