[Libvir] unchecked `malloc' calls

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:43:10AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:26:31PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > In browsing through the code, I noticed that there are many
> > places in which the code doesn't check for malloc returning NULL.
> > E.g.,
> > 
> >   ./virsh.c:    ids = malloc(sizeof(int) * maxid);
> >   ./virsh.c-    virConnectListDomains(ctl->conn, &ids[0], maxid);
> 
> Actually virConnectListDomains which is in the library will check 
> the pointer. It won't crash in the library !
> >   ./virsh.c:    *res = malloc(sz + 1);
> >   ./virsh.c-    memcpy(*res, tkstr, sz);
> > 
> >   ./virsh.c:        res = malloc(strlen(name) + 3);
> >   ./virsh.c-        sprintf(res, "--%s", name);
> 
> virsh.c is code for the command line tool, I would say it's less critical
> there than in the library if malloc fails and it leads to a crash.
> But I'm sure Karel and me will enjoy a patch to fix this.

  Well since it was trivial to catch those and exit I just spent the 2mn 
needed to add this, this is fixed in CVS. For XML-RPC I expect the code
to be largely revamped before being integrated so I let it as is for the
moment.

  Thanks,

Daniel

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