I recently compiled 1.2.18 to start testing with it, and was getting this error on startup: *** stack smashing detected ***: libvirtd terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7fe1ac631527] /lib64/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x0)[0x7fe1ac6314f0] //lib/libvirt.so.0(+0xa7927)[0x7fe1aeda2927] //lib/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_nodedev.so(+0x947d)[0x7fe1958a047d] //lib/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_nodedev.so(+0xa6c2)[0x7fe1958a16c2] //lib/libvirt/connection-driver/libvirt_driver_nodedev.so(+0xaf4e)[0x7fe1958a1f4e] //lib/libvirt.so.0(virStateInitialize+0xb8)[0x7fe1aee6d0a8] libvirtd(+0x15120)[0x7fe1afae6120] //lib/libvirt.so.0(+0xd4975)[0x7fe1aedcf975] /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x30316079d1)[0x7fe1ada8c9d1] /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7fe1ac6178fd] (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff4a8f625 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007ffff4a90e05 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007ffff4acd537 in __libc_message () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #3 0x00007ffff4b5f527 in __fortify_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #4 0x00007ffff4b5f4f0 in __stack_chk_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #5 0x00007ffff72d0927 in virNetDevGetFeatures (ifname=<value optimized out>, out=<value optimized out>) at util/virnetdev.c:3200 #6 0x00007fffdddce47d in udevProcessNetworkInterface (device=0x7fffd4071f70, def=0x6) at node_device/node_device_udev.c:694 #7 udevGetDeviceDetails (device=0x7fffd4071f70, def=0x6) at node_device/node_device_udev.c:1272 #8 0x00007fffdddcf6c2 in udevAddOneDevice (device=0x7fffd4071f70) at node_device/node_device_udev.c:1394 #9 0x00007fffdddcff4e in udevProcessDeviceListEntry (privileged=<value optimized out>, callback=<value optimized out>, opaque=<value optimized out>) at node_device/node_device_udev.c:1433 #10 udevEnumerateDevices (privileged=<value optimized out>, callback=<value optimized out>, opaque=<value optimized out>) at node_device/node_device_udev.c:1463 #11 nodeStateInitialize (privileged=<value optimized out>, callback=<value optimized out>, opaque=<value optimized out>) at node_device/node_device_udev.c:1773 #12 0x00007ffff739b0a8 in virStateInitialize (privileged=true, callback=0x555555569070 <daemonInhibitCallback>, opaque=0x5555557f1db0) at libvirt.c:777 #13 0x0000555555569120 in daemonRunStateInit (opaque=<value optimized out>) at libvirtd.c:947 #14 0x00007ffff72fd975 in virThreadHelper (data=<value optimized out>) at util/virthread.c:206 #15 0x00007ffff5fba9d1 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 #16 0x00007ffff4b458fd in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6 In IRC, we tracked this down to this bit of code: g_cmd.cmd = ETHTOOL_GFEATURES; g_cmd.size = GFEATURES_SIZE; if (virNetDevGFeatureAvailable(ifname, &g_cmd)) ignore_value(virBitmapSetBit(*out, VIR_NET_DEV_FEAT_TXUDPTNL)); GFEATURES_SIZE is currently defined as 2, but this value needs to be higher in order to support newer kernels. It looks like this code was added in ac3ed2085fcbeecaf5aa347c0b1bffaf94fff293 ethtool calculates this value based on the number of supported features: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/core/ethtool.c#L55 I don't know enough about this to properly fix this, but raising GFEATURES_SIZE to 3 has fixed this issue for me (though, this will obviously need to go higher as more features get added) This crash was occurring on a CentOS 6 system, running a the ELRepo kernel-ml kernel. The stock CentOS 6 kernel (2.6.32) does not appear to have sufficient features available to trigger this.