Re: [PATCH] qemu: Fix serial stub console allocation

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On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 02:33:04PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 13:11:09 +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c
> > index 4a7d99725..34ddb95f8 100644
> > --- a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c
> > +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c
> > @@ -1810,7 +1810,7 @@ qemuDomainChrPreInsert(virDomainDefPtr vmdef,
> >          if (!vmdef->consoles && VIR_ALLOC(vmdef->consoles) < 0)
> >              return -1;
> >
> > -        if (VIR_ALLOC(vmdef->consoles[0]) < 0) {
> > +        if (!(vmdef->consoles[0] = virDomainChrDefNew(NULL))) {
>
> With this the code will not call qemuDomainChrSourcePrivateNew in the
> qemu driver, which is called everywhere. Are you sure this is okay? If
> so please add a comment that xmlopt is not necessary here.

I hopefully checked all places where we're handling char devices and when
dealing with consoles, we always special case the backcompat serial console 0
in a way where instead of the console's own def, we rather pass the serial[0]'s
data. I'll add a comment as suggested.

Erik

>
> Otherwise it should be simple to pass xmlopt here.


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