virGetStorageVol can return NULL on out-of-memory. If it does, cleanly abort the volume clone operation. Signed-off-by: Michael Chapman <mike(a)very.puzzling.org&gt; --- src/storage/storage_driver.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/storage/storage_driver.c b/src/storage/storage_driver.c index c83aa8a..2f7b2e5 100644 --- a/src/storage/storage_driver.c +++ b/src/storage/storage_driver.c @@ -1828,6 +1828,10 @@ storageVolCreateXMLFrom(virStoragePoolPtr obj, pool->volumes.objs[pool->volumes.count++] = newvol; volobj = virGetStorageVol(obj->conn, pool->def->name, newvol->name, newvol->key, NULL, NULL); + if (!volobj) { + pool->volumes.count--; + goto cleanup; + } /* Drop the pool lock during volume allocation */ pool->asyncjobs++; -- 1.8.3.1