In short, we were calling ioctl(SIOCETHTOOL) pointing to a too-short
object that was a local on the stack, resulting in the memory past the
end of the object being overwritten. This was because the struct used
by the ETHTOOL_GFEATURES command of SIOCETHTOOL ends with a 0-length
array, but we were telling ethtool that it could use 2 elements on the
array.
The fix is to allocate the necessary memory with VIR_ALLOC_VAR(),
including the extra length needed for a 2 element array at the end.