If @vm has flagged as "to be removed" virDomainObjListFindByNameLocked returns NULL (although the definition actually exists). Therefore, the possibility exits that "virHashAddEntry" will raise the error "Duplicate key" => virDomainObjListAddObjLocked fails => virDomainObjEndAPI(&vm) is called and this leads to a freeing of @def since @def is already assigned to vm->def. But actually this leads to a double free since the common usage pattern is that the caller of virDomainObjListAdd(Locked) is responsible for freeing @def in case of an error. Let's fix this by setting vm->def to NULL in case of an error. Backtrace: ➤ bt #0 virFree (ptrptr=0x7575757575757575) #1 0x000003ffb5b25b3e in virDomainResourceDefFree #2 0x000003ffb5b37c34 in virDomainDefFree #3 0x000003ff9123f734 in qemuDomainDefineXMLFlags #4 0x000003ff9123f7f4 in qemuDomainDefineXML #5 0x000003ffb5cd2c84 in virDomainDefineXML #6 0x000000011745aa82 in remoteDispatchDomainDefineXML ... Reviewed-by: Bjoern Walk <bwalk@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are
not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER
and COPYING
for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will
be detected during execution of the configure
script and a summary printed
which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: