[libvirt] Crash while using virConnectRef
All,
I've been doing some testing of the virConnectRef() function, and as far as
I can tell, it's busted. Here's the simple example program I'm using:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <libvirt/libvirt.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
virConnectPtr conn;
conn = virConnectOpen(NULL);
printf("type is %s\n",virConnectGetType(conn));
virConnectRef(conn);
virConnectClose(conn);
virConnectClose(conn);
return 0;
}
When compiling and running this program, I get a segfault during the *second*
virConnectClose(). The crash comes in the remote_internal driver, because the
first virConnectClose() actually freed up the remote_internal private memory,
and now the second one comes along and accesses a NULL pointer. I think this
actually points to a bug in virConnectClose(); we shouldn't be running the
->close() callbacks on the drivers until we are going to be really closing up
the driver, i.e. we should move all of the ->close() callbacks into
virUnrefConnect(). Is that the right way to fix this?
--
Chris Lalancette