[libvirt] [PATCH 00/10] Resolve CHECKED_RETURN errors found by Coverity

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 02:16:12PM -0500, John Ferlan wrote:
> Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=880388
> 
> This set of patches resolves the "CHECKED_RETURN (CWE-252)" errors found
> by Coverity.
> 
> 
> John Ferlan (10):
>   interface: Check and handle error for virAsprintf() calls.
>   parallels: Check and handle error for virAsprintf() calls. Ignore the return 
>        inparallelsMakePoolName() since subsequent check validates name
>        was allocated.
>   rpc: Check status when attempting to set SO_REUSEADDR flag on outgoing
>        connection. On failure, VIR_WARN(), but continue to connect.
>   vmware: Ignore the return status check for vmwareUpdateVMStatus in
>        convenience routine vmwareDomainObjListUpdateDomain
>   xen: Check return status for setting TCP_NODELAY option and generate a
>        VIR_DEBUG message on failure. Allow connection to continue.
>   virlockspacetest: Check return on mkdir for LOCKSPACE_DIR
>   vmx2xmltest: Check and handle error for virAsprintf() calls.
>   xml2vmxtest: Check and handle error for virAsprintf() calls.
>   virsh: Ignore error returns for virBufferTrim().
>   phyp: Check and handle select() errors from waitsocket().

There are a number of issues with vifAsprintf(). As a further patch I
think you should add ATTRIBUTE_RETURN_CHECK to this function, so we
see the problems immediately rather than relying on coverity.

Daniel
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