For a running guest, a <serial/> device can be hotunplugged. This will then remove also aliased <console/>. Trying to hotplug a <console/> device then, libvirtd crashed because it dereferences def->consoles while there's none. Fixes: 42d53ac799a1d7f1414737caa4deb73871876992 Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_alias.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_alias.c b/src/qemu/qemu_alias.c index 85db7fbfe3..161d30cf72 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_alias.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_alias.c @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ qemuAssignDeviceChrAlias(virDomainDef *def, if (chr->deviceType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_CONSOLE && chr->targetType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_CONSOLE_TARGET_TYPE_SERIAL && def->os.type == VIR_DOMAIN_OSTYPE_HVM && + def->nconsoles && def->consoles[0] == chr && def->nserials && def->serials[0]->info.alias) { -- 2.39.2