[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] Resolve Coverity issues

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Wed May 8 15:23:50 UTC 2013


On 05/01/2013 11:53 AM, John Ferlan wrote:
> The following patches resolve a couple of Coverity issues.  The 'lxc' change
> is merely a work-around by adding a Coverity tag to avoid what I consider to
> be a false positive.  Another option to resolving is to change the code in
> lxcContainerPrepareRoot() to assign 'tmp = root->src' and then VIR_FREE(tmp)
> instead.  I have submitted a bug to Coverity for this.  The issue first 
> showed up earlier this month and I've tried various ways to resolve without
> much luck.  The 'virsh' change is from a more recent change where the ':'
> option processing was changed in such a way that Coverity's analysis found
> a missing break. The loop in question should find a match with optopt, but
> if it didn't it would have fallen into the '?' code.
> 
> John Ferlan (2):
>   lxc: Coverity false positive USE_AFTER_FREE
>   virsh: Resolve Coverity 'MISSING_BREAK'
> 
>  src/lxc/lxc_container.c |  5 +++++
>  tools/virsh.c           | 10 +++++++---
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Pushed w/ adj to 1/2 to remove extraneous {}

Thanks,

John




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