In the case of concurrent VM operations, it is possible to have a null pointer reference in qemuMonitorOpen. In the case of concurrent VM shutdown, the priv->monconf will be changed in qemuProcessStop. qemuMonitorOpen releases the lock before calling qemuMonitorOpenUnix and then references priv->monconf. The path variable in monconf will cause a null pointer, so it's better to back up the path content in monconf before releasing the lock. Signed-off-by: Jiang Jiacheng <jiangjiacheng@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c index c2808c75a3..792b895570 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c @@ -679,6 +679,7 @@ qemuMonitorOpen(virDomainObj *vm, { VIR_AUTOCLOSE fd = -1; qemuMonitor *ret = NULL; + g_aurofree char *path = NULL; if (config->type != VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_UNIX) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, @@ -687,8 +688,10 @@ qemuMonitorOpen(virDomainObj *vm, return NULL; } + path = g_strdup(config->data.nix.path); + virObjectUnlock(vm); - fd = qemuMonitorOpenUnix(config->data.nix.path); + fd = qemuMonitorOpenUnix(path); virObjectLock(vm); if (fd < 0) -- 2.33.0