If we're expecting to create a file somewhere and that fails for some reason during qemuOpenFileAs, then we unlink the path we're attempting to create leaving no way to determine what the "existing" privileges, protections, or labels are that caused the failure (open, change owner and group, change mode, etc) Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index 0174c87..89b54c8 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -2899,6 +2899,9 @@ qemuOpenFileAs(uid_t fallback_uid, gid_t fallback_gid, vfoflags |= VIR_FILE_OPEN_FORCE_OWNER; if (stat(path, &sb) == 0) { + /* It already exists, we don't want to delete it on error */ + need_unlink = false; + is_reg = !!S_ISREG(sb.st_mode); /* If the path is regular file which exists * already and dynamic_ownership is off, we don't -- 2.1.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list