Some code paths, such as if hotplug of an empty cdrom fails can cause that 'qemuBlockStorageSourceChainDetach' will be called with 'NULL' @data as there is no backend for the disk. The above case became possible once we allowed hotplug of cdroms and subsequently fixed the case when users would hotplug an empty cdrom which ultimately caused the possibility of having no backend in the hotplug code path which was not possible before (see 'Fixes:' below and also the commit linked from there). Make 'qemuBlockStorageSourceChainDetach' tolerate NULL @data by simply returning early. Fixes: 894c6c5c1686cfbc1742493ed512a4795098b763 Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-54550 Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_block.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_block.c b/src/qemu/qemu_block.c index d6cdf521c4..6e90bae9f2 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_block.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_block.c @@ -1927,6 +1927,9 @@ qemuBlockStorageSourceChainDetach(qemuMonitor *mon, { size_t i; + if (!data) + return; + if (data->copyOnReadAttached) ignore_value(qemuMonitorBlockdevDel(mon, data->copyOnReadNodename)); -- 2.46.0