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Bug 947461

Summary: Vdsm XMLRPC handling crashes in case of parsing nonASCII character causing communication between rhevm and host to fail
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Tomas Dosek <tdosek>
Component: vdsmAssignee: Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek>
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Version: 3.1.3CC: acathrow, bazulay, hateya, iheim, lpeer, michal.skrivanek, ykaul
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Last Closed: 2013-04-02 15:47:48 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Tomas Dosek 2013-04-02 13:19:57 UTC 
Created attachment 730765 [details]
vdsm log

Description of problem:

If XMLRPC handles VM stats with nonASCII characters it throws and error and stops responding to queries.

For Example VMstats please refer to bgu: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947014

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@h-p-08 ~]# rpm -qa | grep vdsm
vdsm-cli-4.10.2-1.8.el6ev.noarch
vdsm-reg-4.10.2-1.8.el6ev.noarch
vdsm-xmlrpc-4.10.2-1.8.el6ev.noarch
vdsm-4.10.2-1.8.el6ev.x86_64
vdsm-python-4.10.2-1.8.el6ev.x86_64

How reproducible:
100 % 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a machine with tools installed and application with nonASCII name installed

Actual results:
XMLRPC fails to deserialize JSON object and gets stuck

Expected results:
Should not get stuck

Additional info: attaching vdsm log, due to size of sosreport I cannot upload it to BZ, please let me know if you need any specific files from it
Comment 1 Itamar Heim 2013-04-02 15:07:54 UTC 
close duplicate of bug 888732?