Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-79165 Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/virfile.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virfile.c b/src/util/virfile.c index 6ac0f4efb3..7cab3d0cd6 100644 --- a/src/util/virfile.c +++ b/src/util/virfile.c @@ -3823,10 +3823,13 @@ virFileIsSharedFSOverride(const char *path, if (!path || path[0] != '/' || !overrides) return false; - if (g_strv_contains((const char *const *) overrides, path)) - return true; + /* Overrides have been canonicalized ahead of time, so we need to + * do the same for the provided path or we'll never be able to + * find a match if symlinks are involved */ + dirpath = virFileCanonicalizePath(path); - dirpath = g_strdup(path); + if (g_strv_contains((const char *const *) overrides, dirpath)) + return true; /* Continue until we've scanned the entire path */ while (p != dirpath) { -- 2.48.1