Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] mdev: Fix daemon crash on domain shutdown after reconnect

The problem resides in virHostdevUpdateActiveMediatedDevices which gets called during qemuProcessReconnect. The issue here is that virMediatedDeviceListAdd takes a pointer to the item to be added to the list to which VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT is used, which also clears the pointer. However, in this case only the local copy of the pointer got cleared, leaving the original pointing to valid memory. To sum it up, during cleanup phase, the original pointer is freed and the daemon crashes basically any time it would access it. Backtrace: 0x00007ffff3ccdeba in __strcmp_sse2_unaligned 0x00007ffff72a444a in virMediatedDeviceListFindIndex 0x00007ffff7241446 in virHostdevReAttachMediatedDevices 0x00007fffc60215d9 in qemuHostdevReAttachMediatedDevices 0x00007fffc60216dc in qemuHostdevReAttachDomainDevices 0x00007fffc6046e6f in qemuProcessStop 0x00007fffc6091596 in processMonitorEOFEvent 0x00007fffc6091793 in qemuProcessEventHandler 0x00007ffff7294bf5 in virThreadPoolWorker 0x00007ffff7294184 in virThreadHelper 0x00007ffff3fdc3c4 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 0x00007ffff3d269cf in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6 Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446455 Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet(a)redhat.com&gt;