From 9951acfdcb794b4ab2af9e6f494e09cdf74f6c68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-Id: <9951acfdcb794b4ab2af9e6f494e09cdf74f6c68@dist-git>
From: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:16:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix libvirtd crash when removing metadata

When trying to remove nonexistent metadata from XML, libvirt daemon
crashes due to dereferencing NULL pointer.

Resolves https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1143955

(cherry picked from commit 288c47406cffa7a6eb9e9c29764850b0cdeb5508)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
---
 src/util/virxml.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/util/virxml.c b/src/util/virxml.c
index cc4a85c..9ce705a 100644
--- a/src/util/virxml.c
+++ b/src/util/virxml.c
@@ -974,6 +974,9 @@ virXMLFindChildNodeByNs(xmlNodePtr root,
 {
     xmlNodePtr next;
 
+    if (!root)
+        return NULL;
+
     for (next = root->children; next; next = next->next) {
         if (next->ns &&
             STREQ_NULLABLE((const char *) next->ns->href, uri))
-- 
2.1.1