[libvirt] [PATCH 3/6] virsh: use correct sizeof when allocating cpumap

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Nov 29 16:56:33 UTC 2012


----- Original Message -----
> Found by coverity:
> Error: SIZEOF_MISMATCH (CWE-569):
>     libvirt-0.10.2/tools/virsh-domain.c:4754: suspicious_sizeof:
>     Passing
>     argument "8UL /* sizeof (cpumap) */" to function
>     "_vshCalloc(vshControl *, size_t, size_t, char const *, int)" and
>     then casting the return value to "unsigned char *" is suspicious.
> 
> Error: SIZEOF_MISMATCH (CWE-569):
>     libvirt-0.10.2/tools/virsh-domain.c:4942: suspicious_sizeof:
>     Passing
>     argument "8UL /* sizeof (cpumap) */" to function
>     "_vshCalloc(vshControl *, size_t, size_t, char const *, int)" and
>     then casting the return value to "unsigned char *" is suspicious.
> ---
>  tools/virsh-domain.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

ACK.

> -    cpumap = vshCalloc(ctl, cpumaplen, sizeof(cpumap));
> +    cpumap = vshCalloc(ctl, cpumaplen, sizeof(*cpumap));

Bugs like this show why we prefer VIR_ALLOC_N.  Maybe we should
fix vshCalloc to be a thin wrapper around VIR_ALLOC_N, but that's
a bigger task for another day.




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