[libvirt] [PATCH] Resolve Coverity issue regarding not checking return value

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Tue Nov 5 13:35:08 UTC 2013


On 11/05/2013 03:11 PM, John Ferlan wrote:
> Coverity complains that the call to virPCIDeviceDetach() in
> qemuPrepareHostdevPCIDevices() doesn't check status return like
> other calls.  Seems this just was lurking until a recent change
> to this module resulted in Coverity looking harder and finding
> the issue.  Introduced by 'a4efb2e33' when function was called
> 'pciReAttachDevice()'
>
> Just added a ignore_value() since it doesn't appear to matter
> if the call fails since we're on a failure path already.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_hostdev.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_hostdev.c b/src/qemu/qemu_hostdev.c
> index 57ab28c..f5cad15 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_hostdev.c
> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_hostdev.c
> @@ -819,7 +819,8 @@ reattachdevs:
>          /* NB: This doesn't actually re-bind to original driver, just
>           * unbinds from the stub driver
>           */
> -        virPCIDeviceReattach(dev, driver->activePciHostdevs, NULL);
> +        ignore_value(virPCIDeviceReattach(dev, driver->activePciHostdevs,
> +                                          NULL));
>      }
>  
>  cleanup:

ACK.




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