[libvirt] [PATCH] Protect against NULL pointer flaws in monitor usage (v2)

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon May 17 17:31:25 UTC 2010


On 05/17/2010 11:13 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> History has shown that there are frequent bugs in the QEMU driver
> code leading to the monitor being invoked with a NULL pointer.
> Although the QEMU driver code should always report an error in
> this case before invoking the monitor, as a safety net put in a
> generic check in the monitor code entry points.
> 
> * src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c: Safety net to check for NULL monitor
>   object

Any quick pointers on how this differs from v1?

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Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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