[libvirt] [PATCH v4] storage: Sanitize pool target paths

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Tue May 25 16:44:05 UTC 2010


On 05/25/2010 12:09 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 09:49 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Spurious / in a pool target path makes life difficult for apps using the
>> GetVolByPath, and doing other path based comparisons with pools. This
>> has caused a few issues for virt-manager users:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494005
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593565
>>
>> Add a new util API which removes spurious /, virFileSanitizePath. Sanitize
>> target paths when parsing pool XML, and for paths passed to GetVolByPath.
>>
>> v2: Leading // must be preserved, properly sanitize path=/, sanitize
>>     away /./ -> /
>>
>> v3: Properly handle starting ./ and ending /.
>>
>> v4: Drop all '.' handling, just sanitize / for now.
> 
> ACK - by simplifying the function, it's simpler to verify by code
> inspection.  Thanks for the repeated attempts at this.
> 

Thanks for the repeated reviews! I've pushed this now.

- Cole




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