libvirt/libvirt-util-json-Increase-JSON-nesting-limit-when-parsing-to-300.patch
Jiri Denemark c065481eaa libvirt-11.10.0-3.el10
- util: json: Increase JSON nesting limit when parsing to 300 (RHEL-135181)
- virjsontest: Add test for nesting depth (RHEL-135181)
- qemuSecurityMoveImageMetadata: Move seclabels only to virStorageSource of same type (RHEL-114412)
- esx: Allow connecting to IPv6 server (RHEL-138300)

Resolves: RHEL-114412, RHEL-135181, RHEL-138300
2026-01-23 14:12:47 +01:00

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From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:39:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] util: json: Increase JSON nesting limit when parsing to 300
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The default in json-c is 32 which is too low to accomodate the 200
snapshot layers we supported historically in the qemu driver (200 is
picked based on the 256 layer limit in libxml).
The response to 'query-block' is otherwise too low and we fail to start
the VM when there's around 26 images in a backing chain.
'json_tokener_new_ex' is supported since json-c 0.11 and we require at
least 0.14.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit b49d41b7e9eb983fdfbf70c91c2a27a995af3987)
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-135181
---
src/util/virjson.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/util/virjson.c b/src/util/virjson.c
index a799707c16..454bd657be 100644
--- a/src/util/virjson.c
+++ b/src/util/virjson.c
@@ -1466,7 +1466,15 @@ virJSONValueFromString(const char *jsonstring)
VIR_DEBUG("string=%s", jsonstring);
- tok = json_tokener_new();
+ /* When creating the tokener we need to specify the limit of the nesting
+ * depth of JSON objects. The default in json-c is 32. Since we need to
+ * support at least 200 layers of snapshots (the limit is based on a
+ * conservative take on the 256 layer nesting limit for XML in libxml), for
+ * which we have internal checks, we also need to set the JSON limit to
+ * be able to parse qemu responses for such a deeply nested snapshot list.
+ * '300' is picked a sa conservative buffer on top of the 200 layers plus
+ * some of the extra wrappers that qemu adds*/
+ tok = json_tokener_new_ex(300);
if (!tok) {
virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s",
_("failed to create JSON tokener"));
--
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