From: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco(a)gmail.com&gt; In function virSecurityDeviceLabelDefNew(), when libvirt fails to allocate seclabel structure it returns a failure. This case is setting seclabel as a NULL pointer and accessing its attribute below. This commit fixes this wrong logic. Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco(a)gmail.com&gt; --- src/util/virseclabel.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/virseclabel.c b/src/util/virseclabel.c index a2b5ebf6b7..2141d84210 100644 --- a/src/util/virseclabel.c +++ b/src/util/virseclabel.c @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ virSecurityDeviceLabelDefNew(const char *model) if (VIR_ALLOC(seclabel) < 0) { virSecurityDeviceLabelDefFree(seclabel); - seclabel = NULL; + return NULL; } seclabel->model = g_strdup(model); -- 2.20.1