when failed to boot a guest, virSecuritySELinuxRestoreFileLabel will be called eventually to reset security label, which will lead a crash if pass null to virFileResolveLink(path, &newpath). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300532 Signed-off-by: Shanzhi Yu <shyu(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/security/security_selinux.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/security/security_selinux.c b/src/security/security_selinux.c index 9e98635..c8a7553 100644 --- a/src/security/security_selinux.c +++ b/src/security/security_selinux.c @@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ virSecuritySELinuxRestoreFileLabel(virSecurityManagerPtr mgr, VIR_INFO("Restoring SELinux context on '%s'", path); - if (virFileResolveLink(path, &newpath) < 0) { + if (path && virFileResolveLink(path, &newpath) < 0) { VIR_WARN("cannot resolve symlink %s: %s", path, virStrerror(errno, ebuf, sizeof(ebuf))); goto err; -- 1.8.3.1