On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 15:20:52 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote: > g_regex_unref reports an error if called with a NULL argument. > > We have two cases in the code where we (possibly) call it on a NULL > argument. The interesting one is in virDomainQemuMonitorEventCleanup. > > Based on VIR_CONNECT_DOMAIN_QEMU_MONITOR_EVENT_REGISTER_REGEX, we unref > data->regex, which has two problems: > > * On the client side, flags is -1 so the comparison is true even if no > regex was used, reproducible by: > $ virsh qemu-monitor-event --timeout 1 > which results in an ugly error: > (process:1289846): GLib-CRITICAL **: 14:58:42.631: g_regex_unref: assertion 'regex != NULL' failed > * On the server side, we only create the regex if both the flag and the > string are present, so it's possible to trigger this message by: > $ virsh qemu-monitor-event --regex --timeout 1 > > Use a non-NULL comparison instead of the flag to decide whether we need > to unref the regex. Please modify this last sentence to describe both fixes. I've flushed out that there's another case by the time I've read the end here. > Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@xxxxxxxxxx> > Fixes: 71efb59a4de7c51b1bc889a316f1796ebf55738f > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861176 > --- > src/conf/domain_event.c | 2 +- > tests/vboxsnapshotxmltest.c | 3 ++- > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx>