When adding the aliased serial stub console, the structure wasn't properly allocated (VIR_ALLOC instead of virDomainChrDefNew) which then resulted in SIGSEGV in virDomainChrSourceIsEqual during a serial device coldplug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434278 Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c index 4a7d99725..6701bd9bc 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c @@ -1802,15 +1802,17 @@ qemuDomainChrPreInsert(virDomainDefPtr vmdef, if (virDomainChrPreAlloc(vmdef, chr) < 0) return -1; - /* Due to some crazy backcompat stuff, the first serial device is an alias - * to the first console too. If this is the case, the definition must be - * duplicated as first console device. */ + /* Due to historical reasons, the first console is an alias to the + * first serial device (if such exists). If this is the case, we need to + * create an object for the first console as well. + */ if (vmdef->nserials == 0 && vmdef->nconsoles == 0 && chr->deviceType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_SERIAL) { if (!vmdef->consoles && VIR_ALLOC(vmdef->consoles) < 0) return -1; - if (VIR_ALLOC(vmdef->consoles[0]) < 0) { + /* We'll be dealing with serials[0] directly, so NULL is fine here. */ + if (!(vmdef->consoles[0] = virDomainChrDefNew(NULL))) { VIR_FREE(vmdef->consoles); return -1; } @@ -1841,7 +1843,7 @@ qemuDomainChrInsertPreAllocCleanup(virDomainDefPtr vmdef, /* Remove the stub console added by qemuDomainChrPreInsert */ if (vmdef->nserials == 0 && vmdef->nconsoles == 1 && chr->deviceType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_SERIAL) { - VIR_FREE(vmdef->consoles[0]); + virDomainChrDefFree(vmdef->consoles[0]); VIR_FREE(vmdef->consoles); vmdef->nconsoles = 0; } -- 2.13.0