[libvirt] [PATCH 4/5] virsh: Resolve possible NULL dereference

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Thu Feb 14 16:42:04 UTC 2013


Coverity found that commit '41b5e845' had a possible NULL dereference on
arg->data processing
---
 tools/virsh.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/virsh.c b/tools/virsh.c
index 4f75e8e..f5a01b3 100644
--- a/tools/virsh.c
+++ b/tools/virsh.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * virsh.c: a shell to exercise the libvirt API
  *
- * Copyright (C) 2005, 2007-2012 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2005, 2007-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
@@ -1475,7 +1475,7 @@ vshCommandOptStringReq(vshControl *ctl,
     if (!arg->data)
         error = N_("Programming error: Requested option is a boolean");
 
-    if (!*arg->data && !(arg->def->flags & VSH_OFLAG_EMPTY_OK))
+    if (arg->data && !*arg->data && !(arg->def->flags & VSH_OFLAG_EMPTY_OK))
         error = N_("Option argument is empty");
 
     if (error) {
-- 
1.7.11.7




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