My change in 112f3a8d0f32 was too drastic. The @charAlias variable is initialized only if @monitor == true. However, it is used even outside of that condition, at which point it's just uninitialized pointer. Reported-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c index a5c352f44b..78c9a77f2d 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c @@ -4754,13 +4754,12 @@ qemuDomainRemoveChrDevice(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, VIR_DEBUG("Removing character device %s from domain %p %s", chr->info.alias, vm, vm->def->name); + if (!(charAlias = qemuAliasChardevFromDevAlias(chr->info.alias))) + goto cleanup; + if (monitor) { - if (!(charAlias = qemuAliasChardevFromDevAlias(chr->info.alias))) - goto cleanup; - qemuDomainObjEnterMonitor(driver, vm); rc = qemuMonitorDetachCharDev(priv->mon, charAlias); - if (qemuDomainObjExitMonitor(driver, vm) < 0) goto cleanup; } -- 2.19.2