The virBhyveProcessStartImpl() function which implements domain start does not check if bhyve monitor open is successful. Check that and jump to the cleanup routines if it was not. Signed-off-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com> --- src/bhyve/bhyve_process.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/bhyve/bhyve_process.c b/src/bhyve/bhyve_process.c index 2221d8700a..4d93ba8fac 100644 --- a/src/bhyve/bhyve_process.c +++ b/src/bhyve/bhyve_process.c @@ -411,7 +411,8 @@ virBhyveProcessStartImpl(struct _bhyveConn *driver, vm->def->id = vm->pid; virDomainObjSetState(vm, VIR_DOMAIN_RUNNING, reason); - priv->mon = bhyveMonitorOpen(vm, driver); + if ((priv->mon = bhyveMonitorOpen(vm, driver)) == NULL) + goto cleanup; if (virBhyveDomainObjStartWorker(vm) < 0) goto cleanup; -- 2.52.0