[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix crash in nwfilter driver check

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Apr 19 13:18:15 UTC 2010


The nwfilterDriverActive() could de-reference a NULL pointer
if it hadn't be started at the point it was called. It was
also not thread safe, since it lacked locking around data
accesses.

* src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c: Fix locking & NULL checks
  in nwfilterDriverActive()
---
 src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c
index 58df4e1..412c5b8 100644
--- a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c
+++ b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c
@@ -153,9 +153,16 @@ nwfilterDriverReload(void) {
  */
 static int
 nwfilterDriverActive(void) {
-    if (!driverState->pools.count)
+    int ret;
+
+    if (!driverState)
         return 0;
-    return 1;
+
+    nwfilterDriverLock(driverState);
+    ret = driverState->pools.count ? 1 : 0;
+    nwfilterDriverUnlock(driverState);
+
+    return ret;
 }
 
 /**
-- 
1.6.6.1




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