This patch fixes the case when creating a luks encrypted volume via an xml file without 'secret' element. libvirtd was receiving SIGSEGV, now proper error is reported for the missing element. (see bz 1468422) Signed-off-by: Katerina Koukiou <kkoukiou(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/storage/storage_util.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/storage/storage_util.c b/src/storage/storage_util.c index 554fc757ed..18414ddb89 100644 --- a/src/storage/storage_util.c +++ b/src/storage/storage_util.c @@ -1277,6 +1277,13 @@ storageBackendCreateQemuImgSecretPath(virStoragePoolObjPtr pool, return NULL; } + if (!enc->secrets) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", + _("A single <secret type='passphrase'...> " + "element is expected in encryption description")); + return NULL; + } + conn = virGetConnectSecret(); if (!conn) return NULL; -- 2.15.0