Since commit v4.3.0-336-gc84726fbdd all {hypervisor-,}cpu-{baseline,compare} commands use a generic vshExtractCPUDefXMLs helper for extracting individual CPU definitions from the provided input file. The helper wraps the input file in a <container> element so that several independent elements can be easily parsed from the file. This works fine except when the file starts with XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0" ... ?>) because the XML declaration cannot be put inside any element. In fact it has to be at the very beginning of the XML document without any preceding white space characters. We can just simply skip the XML declaration.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595993

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar(a)redhat.com&gt; --- tools/virsh-host.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 17:39:16 +0100, Ján Tomko wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 04:46:33PM +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote: > >Since commit v4.3.0-336-gc84726fbdd all > >{hypervisor-,}cpu-{baseline,compare} commands use a generic > >vshExtractCPUDefXMLs helper for extracting individual CPU definitions > >from the provided input file. The helper wraps the input file in a > ><container> element so that several independent elements can be easily > >parsed from the file. This works fine except when the file starts with > >XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0" ... ?>) because the XML declaration > >cannot be put inside any element. In fact it has to be at the very > >beginning of the XML document without any preceding white space > >characters. We can just simply skip the XML declaration. > > What if someone specifies a doctype? O:) > Also, does libvirt produce such files? I don't think we should bother > doing extra work to undo the extra work done by the user. Of course, we don't generate XML declarations, but I can imagine tools formatting DOM into a file could just automatically output the XML declaration unless you explicitly tell them not to do so. On the other hand, nothing would output a doctype or <?xml-stylesheet ?> without an explicit action. Moreover, libvirt itself doesn't mind XML declarations and virsh before 4.4.0 didn't mind either. I agree, it's probably a corner case and I was thinking about not fixing it, but it turned out to be really easy thanks to the strict XML specification. > >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595993 > > I only see a relation between the bug summary and this patch. > There's no mention of the XML declaration there and no mention of the > other issues mentioned there here in the patch. Oops, the patch is supposed to fix another bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1592737