8d157c13cc
The use of the parseOpaque parameter was mistakenly removed in
commit 4a4132b4625778cf80acb9c92d06351b44468ac3
Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Dec 3 10:49:49 2019 +0000
conf: don't use passed in caps in post parse method
causing the method to re-fetch qemuCaps that were already just
fetched and put into parseOpaque.
This is inefficient when parsing incoming XML, but for live
XML this is more serious as it means we use the capabilities
for the current QEMU binary on disk, rather than the running
QEMU.
That commit, however, did have a useful side effect of fixing
a crasher bug in the qemu post parse callback introduced by
commit 5e939cea896fb3373a6f68f86e325c657429ed3d
Author: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Sep 26 18:42:02 2019 +0200
qemu: Store default CPU in domain XML
The qemuDomainDefSetDefaultCPU() method in that patch did not
allow for the possibility that qemuCaps would be NULL and thus
resulted in a SEGV.
This shows a risk in letting each check in the post parse
callback look for qemuCaps == NULL. The safer option is to
check once upfront and immediately stop (postpone) further
validation.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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