From: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 17:27:59 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Commit 9899c91515 introduced the potential for a NULL pointer dereference
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Commit 9899c91515 introduced the potential for a NULL pointer dereference
crash when the 'ctl' parameter to vshPrintStderr() is NULL. Below is an
example backtrace of the crash when attempting to detach a non-existent
disk with 'virsh detach-disk test vdz'

 #0  vshPrintStderr (ctl=0x0, level=4, format=<optimized out>, ap=<optimized out>) at ../tools/vsh.c:2148
 #1  0x00005555555e6b2c in vshError (ctl=ctl@entry=0x0, format=<optimized out>) at ../tools/vsh.c:2170
 #2  0x00005555555afec7 in virshFindDisk
    (doc=doc@entry=0x555555696ee0 "<domain type='kvm' id='1'>\n  <name>test</name>\n  <uuid>9b27a21e-dfa2-4c1e-9d11-2de275aefb03</uuid>\n  <metadata>\n    <libosinfo:libosinfo xmlns:libosinfo=\"http://libosinfo.org/xmlns/libvirt/domain/1."..., path=0x555555651240 "vdz", type=type@entry=0) at ../tools/virsh-domain.c:13055
 #3  0x00005555555b0151 in cmdDetachDisk (ctl=0x7fffffffdac0, cmd=0x5555556914c0) at ../tools/virsh-domain.c:13231
 #4  0x00005555555e6ddb in vshCommandRun (ctl=ctl@entry=0x7fffffffdac0, cmd=0x5555556914c0) at ../tools/vsh.c:1383
 #5  0x000055555559347a in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0x7fffffffdeb8) at ../tools/virsh.c:908

Ensure 'ctl' is valid before dereferencing it.

Fixes: 9899c91515d79595d19800ccc895df18eb7bb3f7
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/tools/vsh.c b/tools/vsh.c
index ccf2f21d64..667cc1a0d2 100644
--- a/tools/vsh.c
+++ b/tools/vsh.c
@@ -2145,7 +2145,7 @@ vshPrintStderr(vshControl *ctl,
     if (ctl)
         vshOutputLogFile(ctl, level, str);
 
-    if (ctl->stderr_closed)
+    if (ctl && ctl->stderr_closed)
         return;
 
     /* Most output is to stdout, but if someone ran virsh 2>&1, then