From: Jing Wu <wujing42(a)huawei.com&gt; Some functions like doCoreDump call virFileWrapperFdNew to execute async cmds, if a step after virFileWrapperFdNew failed, the func may skip virFileWrapperFdClose and jump to cleanup label to call virFileWrapperFdFree directly. If the child process of the cmd is running and asyncioThread is polling, cmd->errbuf have been alloced at least one byte but not yet operate (*cmd->errbuf)[errlen] = '\0', access of wfd->err_msg in virFileWrapperFdFree at this time will cause risk of heap-buffer-overflow. So, we need to put VIR_WARN(wfd->err_msg) after VIR_FREE(wfd->err_msg). Besides, since virCommandFree has included virCommandAbort, there is no need to call virCommandAbort extraly. Signed-off-by: Jing Wu <wujing42(a)huawei.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Jay Zhou <jianjay.zhou(a)huawei.com&gt; --- src/util/virfile.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virfile.c b/src/util/virfile.c index f6f9e4c..d488158 100644 --- a/src/util/virfile.c +++ b/src/util/virfile.c @@ -347,13 +347,12 @@ virFileWrapperFdFree(virFileWrapperFdPtr wfd) if (!wfd) return; + virCommandFree(wfd->cmd); + if (wfd->err_msg && *wfd->err_msg) VIR_WARN("iohelper reports: %s", wfd->err_msg); - virCommandAbort(wfd->cmd); - VIR_FREE(wfd->err_msg); - virCommandFree(wfd->cmd); VIR_FREE(wfd); } -- 1.8.3.1