From: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsement...@virtuozzo.com> Backing may be zero after failed bdrv_append in mirror_start_job, which leads to SIGSEGV.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsement...@virtuozzo.com> Message-id: 20170929152255.5431-1-vsement...@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit ce960aa9062a407d0ca15aee3dcd3bd84a4e24f9) Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- block/mirror.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c index 429751b9fe..03fc6d63b7 100644 --- a/block/mirror.c +++ b/block/mirror.c @@ -1056,6 +1056,10 @@ static int coroutine_fn bdrv_mirror_top_pwritev(BlockDriverState *bs, static int coroutine_fn bdrv_mirror_top_flush(BlockDriverState *bs) { + if (bs->backing == NULL) { + /* we can be here after failed bdrv_append in mirror_start_job */ + return 0; + } return bdrv_co_flush(bs->backing->bs); } -- 2.11.0