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    qemu_opts_append: Play nicely with QemuOptsList's head · a7607150
    Michal Privoznik authored
    
    
    When running a libvirt test suite I've noticed the qemu-img is
    crashing occasionally. Tracing the problem down led me to the
    following valgrind output:
    
    qemu.git $ valgrind -q ./qemu-img create -f qed -obacking_file=/dev/null,backing_fmt=raw qed
    ==14881== Invalid write of size 8
    ==14881==    at 0x1D263F: qemu_opts_create (qemu-option.c:692)
    ==14881==    by 0x130782: bdrv_img_create (block.c:5531)
    ==14881==    by 0x118DE0: img_create (qemu-img.c:462)
    ==14881==    by 0x11E7E4: main (qemu-img.c:2830)
    ==14881==  Address 0x11fedd38 is 24 bytes inside a block of size 232 free'd
    ==14881==    at 0x4C2CA5E: realloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
    ==14881==    by 0x592D35E: g_realloc (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.3800.2)
    ==14881==    by 0x1D38D8: qemu_opts_append (qemu-option.c:1129)
    ==14881==    by 0x13075E: bdrv_img_create (block.c:5528)
    ==14881==    by 0x118DE0: img_create (qemu-img.c:462)
    ==14881==    by 0x11E7E4: main (qemu-img.c:2830)
    ==14881==
    Formatting 'qed', fmt=qed size=0 backing_file='/dev/null' backing_fmt='raw' cluster_size=65536
    ==14881== Invalid write of size 8
    ==14881==    at 0x1D28BE: qemu_opts_del (qemu-option.c:750)
    ==14881==    by 0x130BF3: bdrv_img_create (block.c:5638)
    ==14881==    by 0x118DE0: img_create (qemu-img.c:462)
    ==14881==    by 0x11E7E4: main (qemu-img.c:2830)
    ==14881==  Address 0x11fedd38 is 24 bytes inside a block of size 232 free'd
    ==14881==    at 0x4C2CA5E: realloc (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
    ==14881==    by 0x592D35E: g_realloc (in /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.3800.2)
    ==14881==    by 0x1D38D8: qemu_opts_append (qemu-option.c:1129)
    ==14881==    by 0x13075E: bdrv_img_create (block.c:5528)
    ==14881==    by 0x118DE0: img_create (qemu-img.c:462)
    ==14881==    by 0x11E7E4: main (qemu-img.c:2830)
    ==14881==
    
    The problem is apparently in the qemu_opts_append(). Well, if it
    gets called twice or more. On the first call, when @dst is NULL
    some initialization is done during which @dst->head list gets
    initialized. The list is initialized in a way, so that the list
    tail points at the list head. However, the next time
    qemu_opts_append() is called for new options to be added,
    g_realloc() may move @dst to a new address making the old list tail
    point at an invalid address. If that's the case, we must update the
    list pointers.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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