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Re: [Xen-devel] libxl: xl create segfaults

To: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] libxl: xl create segfaults
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:18:05 +0200
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On Thursday 23 September 2010 17:55:39 Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 11:27 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > 'xl create' crashes due to stack corruption.
>
> ---8<-------------------------------------------
>
> xl: Fix stack corruption caused by non-terminated call to libxl__xs_writev

Confirmed. This fixes the crash. 'xl create' now hangs in a loop. I will have 
a look at this later.

>
> Signed-off-by: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff -r 50c1cc209f8f tools/libxl/libxl.c
> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl.c     Wed Sep 22 18:29:24 2010 +0100
> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.c     Thu Sep 23 16:54:09 2010 +0100
> @@ -1718,7 +1718,7 @@ retry_transaction:
>          vm_path = libxl__xs_read(&gc,t,libxl__sprintf(&gc, "%s/vm",
> p->dom_path)); if (vm_path) {
>              /* Now write the vncpassword into it. */
> -            pass_stuff = libxl__calloc(&gc, 2, sizeof(char *));
> +            pass_stuff = libxl__calloc(&gc, 3, sizeof(char *));
>              pass_stuff[0] = "vncpasswd";
>              pass_stuff[1] = info->vncpasswd;
>              libxl__xs_writev(&gc,t,vm_path,pass_stuff);



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