Fail in a more friendly way than: error: cannot create config directory (null): Bad address https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029266 --- src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c index 6602d73..c3ff4fe 100644 --- a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c +++ b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c @@ -551,13 +551,20 @@ nwfilterDefineXML(virConnectPtr conn, const char *xml) { virNWFilterDriverStatePtr driver = conn->nwfilterPrivateData; - virNWFilterDefPtr def; + virNWFilterDefPtr def = NULL; virNWFilterObjPtr nwfilter = NULL; virNWFilterPtr ret = NULL; nwfilterDriverLock(driver); virNWFilterCallbackDriversLock(); + if (!driver->privileged) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_UNSUPPORTED, + _("network filters are only available when libvirtd " + "runs as root")); + goto cleanup; + } + if (!(def = virNWFilterDefParseString(xml))) goto cleanup;