[libvirt] [PATCH] storage_backend.c: avoid closing a negative file descriptor

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Tue Feb 2 10:14:39 UTC 2010


This close(fd) is reachable with an "fd" of -1 via
the "goto cleanup" just before &fd is first set.
While closing(-1) is not a big problem, it is a failing
syscall, and would show up on an strace audit, not to mention
the coverity and maybe-clang warnings.

>From c69369c445be53f12ec09a176fd477b9ff16bbff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:11:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] storage_backend.c: avoid closing a negative file descriptor

* src/storage/storage_backend.c (virStorageBackendRunProgRegex):
Don't close a negative (read-only) file descriptor.
---
 src/storage/storage_backend.c |    8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend.c b/src/storage/storage_backend.c
index bc656f2..84eb8aa 100644
--- a/src/storage/storage_backend.c
+++ b/src/storage/storage_backend.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * storage_backend.c: internal storage driver backend contract
  *
- * Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Red Hat, Inc.
  * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Daniel P. Berrange
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -1326,8 +1326,10 @@ virStorageBackendRunProgRegex(virConnectPtr conn,

     if (list)
         fclose(list);
-    else
-        close(fd);
+    else {
+        if (0 <= fd)
+            close(fd);
+    }

     while ((err = waitpid(child, &exitstatus, 0) == -1) && errno == EINTR);

--
1.7.0.rc1.149.g0b0b7




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