During qemu driver shutdown, objects are freed in qemuStateCleanup that could still be used by active worker threads, resulting in crashes. E.g. a worker thread could be processing a monitor EOF event after the security manager is already disposed Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. #0 0x00007fd9a9a1e1fe in virSecurityManagerMoveImageMetadata (mgr=0x7fd948012160, pid=-1, src=src@entry=0x7fd98c072c90, dst=dst@entry=0x0) at ../../src/security/security_manager.c:468 #1 0x00007fd9646ff0f0 in qemuSecurityMoveImageMetadata (driver=driver@entry=0x7fd948043830, vm=vm@entry=0x7fd98c066db0, src=src@entry=0x7fd98c072c90, dst=dst@entry=0x0) at ../../src/qemu/qemu_security.c:182 #2 0x00007fd96462c7b0 in qemuBlockRemoveImageMetadata (driver=driver@entry=0x7fd948043830, vm=vm@entry=0x7fd98c066db0, diskTarget=0x7fd98c072530 "vda", src=<optimized out>) at ../../src/qemu/qemu_block.c:2628 #3 0x00007fd9646929d6 in qemuProcessStop (driver=driver@entry=0x7fd948043830, vm=vm@entry=0x7fd98c066db0, reason=reason@entry=VIR_DOMAIN_SHUTOFF_SHUTDOWN, asyncJob=asyncJob@entry=QEMU_ASYNC_JOB_NONE, flags=<optimized out>) at ../../src/qemu/qemu_process.c:7585 #4 0x00007fd9646fc842 in processMonitorEOFEvent (vm=0x7fd98c066db0, driver=0x7fd948043830) at ../../src/qemu/qemu_driver.c:4794 #5 qemuProcessEventHandler (data=0x561a93febb60, opaque=0x7fd948043830) at ../../src/qemu/qemu_driver.c:4900 #6 0x00007fd9a9971a31 in virThreadPoolWorker (opaque=opaque@entry=0x561a93fb58e0) at ../../src/util/virthreadpool.c:163 (gdb) p mgr->drv $2 = (virSecurityDriverPtr) 0x0 Prior to commit 7cf76d4e3ab, the worker thread pool was freed before disposing any driver objects. Let's return to that pattern, but leave the other changes made by 7cf76d4e3ab. Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig(a)suse.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index b4fb7ec1df..28e470e4a2 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -1062,6 +1062,7 @@ qemuStateCleanup(void) if (!qemu_driver) return -1; + virThreadPoolFree(qemu_driver->workerPool); virObjectUnref(qemu_driver->migrationErrors); virLockManagerPluginUnref(qemu_driver->lockManager); virSysinfoDefFree(qemu_driver->hostsysinfo); @@ -1078,7 +1079,6 @@ qemuStateCleanup(void) ebtablesContextFree(qemu_driver->ebtables); VIR_FREE(qemu_driver->qemuImgBinary); virObjectUnref(qemu_driver->domains); - virThreadPoolFree(qemu_driver->workerPool); if (qemu_driver->lockFD != -1) virPidFileRelease(qemu_driver->config->stateDir, "driver", qemu_driver->lockFD); -- 2.40.0