Bug 207978

Summary: blktapctrl SEGVs on illegal tap: device
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Stephen Tweedie <sct>
Component: xenAssignee: Xen Maintainance List <xen-maint>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Description Stephen Tweedie 2006-09-25 17:03:34 UTC
Description of problem:
If the user enters
   tap:$FILE
instead of
   tap:aio:$FILE
as a blkif device in a xen config, then on "xm create", blktapctrl will SEGV
after calling test_path() and getting a NULL back.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xen-3.0.2-36

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-07-24 23:59:34 UTC
change QA contact

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 02:22:39 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2009-03-24 18:18:45 UTC
Does this still happen?

Comment 6 Mark McLoughlin 2009-04-20 09:55:23 UTC
Closing this, we don't have Dom0 support anymore anyway