[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix DMI uuid parsing.

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:22:20AM -0400, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> valgrind was complaining that virUUIDParse was depending on
> an uninitialized value.  Indeed it was; virSetHostUUIDStr()
> didn't initialize the dmiuuid buffer to 0's, meaning that
> anything after the string read from /sys was uninitialized.
> Clear out the dmiuuid buffer before use, and make sure to
> always leave a \0 at the end.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/util/uuid.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/util/uuid.c b/src/util/uuid.c
> index f188148..9cafc2a 100644
> --- a/src/util/uuid.c
> +++ b/src/util/uuid.c
> @@ -286,7 +286,8 @@ virSetHostUUIDStr(const char *uuid)
>          return EEXIST;
>  
>      if (!uuid) {
> -        if (!getDMISystemUUID(dmiuuid, sizeof(dmiuuid))) {
> +        memset(dmiuuid, 0, sizeof(dmiuuid));
> +        if (!getDMISystemUUID(dmiuuid, sizeof(dmiuuid) - 1)) {
>              if (!virUUIDParse(dmiuuid, host_uuid))
>                  return 0;
>          }

  ACK,

Daniel

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