[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] lxc: Coverity false positive USE_AFTER_FREE

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed May 8 10:55:12 UTC 2013


On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 06:51:19AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
> On 05/01/2013 11:53 AM, John Ferlan wrote:
> > ---
> >  src/lxc/lxc_container.c | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
> > index ac0f69c..d082a06 100644
> > --- a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
> > +++ b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
> > @@ -1772,6 +1772,11 @@ static int lxcContainerSetupPivotRoot(virDomainDefPtr vmDef,
> >      /* Some versions of Linux kernel don't let you overmount
> >       * the selinux filesystem, so make sure we kill it first
> >       */
> > +    /* Filed coverity bug for false positive 'USE_AFTER_FREE' due to swap
> > +     * of root->src with root->dst and the VIR_FREE(root->src) prior to the
> > +     * reset of root->src in lxcContainerPrepareRoot()
> > +     */
> > +    /* coverity[deref_arg] */
> >      if (STREQ(root->src, "/") &&
> >          lxcContainerUnmountSubtree(SELINUX_MOUNT, false) < 0)
> >          goto cleanup;
> > 
> 
> ping?
> 
> Any thoughts on this - either way?  There is a Coverity bug filed, but
> it'll take some time to work through their system.


ACK


Daniel
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