[libvirt] [PATCH v2 0/4] Extra validation for the <sysinfo> section

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Mon May 13 17:01:15 UTC 2013


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890494

The <sysinfo> section needs an extra uuid validation check.  The current
check compares the numerical sysinfo/system_uuid with the domain uuid;
however, it's possible that someone added extra hyphens into the sysinfo
uuid which results in the inability to start the domain (at least qemu).
Rather than fail due to improper format, adjust/save to the expected format.

The bug report indicates the 'date' field should at least be syntax checked
based on what's desribed in the SMBIOS spec.  From the spec:

"String number of the BIOS release date. The date string, if supplied, is
in either mm/dd/yy or mm/dd/yyyy format. If the year portion of the string
is two digits, the year is assumed to be 19yy.

NOTE: The mm/dd/yyyy format is required for SMBIOS version 2.3 and later"

v2 -> v1 differences:

 - Moved Sysinfo field validation checks from virDomainDefParseXML() into
   virSysinfoParseXML()

 - As long as the virUUIDParse() value matches the domain's UUID field
   save the 'correct' format in the system_uuid field - that is don't
   error out just because of extraneous space or dash in provided UUID.

 - Added tests for date field and uuid comparison parsing errors.

 NOTE: 01 and 02 are unchanged

John Ferlan (4):
  docs: Fix syntax in sysinfo description
  docs: Update description of SMBIOS fields
  Validate the bios_date format for <sysinfo>
  Adjust improperly formatted <sysinfo> uuid

 docs/formatdomain.html.in                          | 51 +++++++++++---
 src/conf/domain_conf.c                             | 78 ++++++++++++++++------
 .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-smbios-date.xml  | 23 +++++++
 .../qemuxml2argv-smbios-uuid-match.xml             | 23 +++++++
 tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           |  2 +
 5 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-smbios-date.xml
 create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-smbios-uuid-match.xml

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