On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 13:37:34 +0200, Simon Kobyda wrote: > XML shmem name will not include characters '/', '.' or '..', as shmem name > is used in a path > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192400 > --- > src/conf/domain_conf.c | 13 +++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c > index 7ab2953d83..3f580525bb 100644 > --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c > +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c > @@ -6107,6 +6107,8 @@ virDomainDefLifecycleActionValidate(const virDomainDef *def) > static int > virDomainDefValidateInternal(const virDomainDef *def) > { > + size_t i; > + > if (virDomainDefCheckDuplicateDiskInfo(def) < 0) > return -1; > > @@ -6136,6 +6138,17 @@ virDomainDefValidateInternal(const virDomainDef *def) > return -1; > } > > + for (i = 0; i < def->nshmems; i++) { > + if (strchr(def->shmems[i]->name, '/')) > + return -1; > + > + if (strchr(def->shmems[i]->name, '.')) > + return -1; > + > + if (strstr(def->shmems[i]->name, "..")) > + return -1; This is dead code since a single dot is rejected by the above statement. Also you need to report an error, since the user would not know what is wrong here.