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Eric Blake
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storage: fix memory leak with encrypted images
Jim Fehlig reported a regression found by libvirt-TCK tests: > ~ # perl /usr/share/libvirt-tck/tests/qemu/100-disk-encryption.t ... > ok 4 - defined persistent domain config > # Starting inactive domain config > libvirt error code: 1, message: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command > 'cont': 'drive-ide0-0-1' > (/var/cache/libvirt-tck/300-disk-encryption/demo.qcow2) is encrypted Commit 2279d560 converted a boolean into a pointer with the intent of transferring that pointer out of a temporary object into the caller's data structure. The temporary structure meant that meta->encryption was always NULL on entry, so we could get away with blindly allocating the pointer when the header said so. But later, commit 8823272d tweaked things to do backing chain detection in-place, rather than via a temporary object; this has the net result that meta->encryption can be non-NULL on entry. Not only did this turn the latent behavior into a memory leak, it is also a behavior regression: blindly allocating a new pointer wipes out what secrets we already knew about the chain, making it impossible to restart the domain. Of course, no one in their right mind should be relying on qcow2 encryption - it is fundamentally flawed. And sadly, the TCK tests don't get run often enough, and this shows that our virstoragetest does not exercise encrypted images at all. Otherwise, we could have avoided a release containing this regression. * src/util/virstoragefile.c (virStorageFileGetMetadataInternal): Don't nuke an already-existing encryption. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit 1c7eb95c8409baeb853d742e43b1fc20602821e9)
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed. Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
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Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the
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includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware
vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER
Hypervisor.
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