[Libvir] [PATCH] Add the check of the format of MAC address on virsh attach-interface

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Fri Jul 13 08:27:27 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 02:24:01PM +0900, Masayuki Sunou wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Even if specified MAC address is invalid,
> network interface is attached to the guest.
> And attached network interface cannot communicate. 
> 
> This patch checks the format of MAC address,
> and virsh become error when it is invalid.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masayuki Sunou <fj1826dm at aa.jp.fujitsu.com>

  Hum, right, I don't expect to see non-ethernet MAC addresses at
that point, and doing the checking earlier allows a better handling
of the error. This makes sense so applied, but I fixed the code to avoid
a couple of warnings from gcc.

  thanks !

Daniel

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