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Bug 744548

Summary: Attaching to a nonexistent PID causes libvirtd to crash
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.2CC: acathrow, ajia, gren, mzhan, rwu, veillard, weizhan, whuang
Target Milestone: rc   
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Fixed In Version: libvirt-0.9.4-17.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Michal Privoznik 2011-10-09 10:34:53 UTC
Description of problem:
If an attaching to qemu process fails, e.g. invalid PID was supplied, libvirtd crashes. The problem lies within qemu driver which frees uninitialized variable.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.9.4-16.el6

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get random number and make sure no such PID exists
2. virsh qemu-attach $PID
3. observe libvirtd SIGSEGV
  
Actual results:
the daemon crashes

Expected results:
an error printed (something like non-existing PID) and no deamon crash

Additional info:

Comment 4 Huang Wenlong 2011-10-12 03:20:14 UTC
Verify this bug with libvirt-0.9.4-17.el6.x86_64

[root@5-12-r6 ~]# virsh qemu-attach 33333344
11:18:54.185: 18201: error : virFileReadAll:451 : Failed to open file '/proc/33333344/cmdline': No such file or directory
error: Failed to open file '/proc/33333344/cmdline': No such file or directory

[root@5-12-r6 ~]# /etc/init.d/libvirtd status
libvirtd (pid  18197) is running...

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 11:37:14 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1513.html