[libvirt] [PATCH] Robustify sexpr parser for NICs

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Thu Feb 5 05:56:58 UTC 2009


john.levon at sun.com wrote:
> Robustify sexpr parser for NICs
>
> xend can occassionally get itself confused. Avoid crashing libvirt in
> this case.
>
> diff --git a/src/xend_internal.c b/src/xend_internal.c
> --- a/src/xend_internal.c
> +++ b/src/xend_internal.c
> @@ -1759,7 +1759,8 @@ xenDaemonParseSxprNets(virConnectPtr con
>              if (VIR_ALLOC(net) < 0)
>                  goto no_memory;
>
> -            if (tmp != NULL || (STREQ(tmp2, DEFAULT_VIF_SCRIPT))) {
> +            if (tmp != NULL ||
> +                (tmp2 != NULL && STREQ(tmp2, DEFAULT_VIF_SCRIPT))) {
>                  net->type = VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_BRIDGE;
>                  /* XXX virtual network reverse resolve */

ACK, but it'd sure be nice to post
an example of input that would crash libvirt.
Bonus points for making it into a test case.




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