[libvirt] [PATCH] util: Resolve coverity issues

Wang King king.wang at huawei.com
Wed Apr 12 09:44:04 UTC 2017


On 2017/4/12 16:35, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 16:22:57 +0800, Wang King wrote:
>
> "resolve coverity issue" is not a good summary for a patch. It should
> describe what the actual bug you are fixing is.
>
>> Coverity complains about virBufferCurrentContent might be return null when calling
>> strlen, so check virBufferError first before calling strlen.
>> ---
>>   src/util/virsystemd.c | 2 ++
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/util/virsystemd.c b/src/util/virsystemd.c
>> index ceb1c1a..83737a2 100644
>> --- a/src/util/virsystemd.c
>> +++ b/src/util/virsystemd.c
>> @@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ virSystemdAppendValidMachineName(virBufferPtr buf,
>>       bool skip_dot = false;
>>   
>>       for (; *name; name++) {
>> +        if (virBufferError(buf))
>> +            break;
>>           if (strlen(virBufferCurrentContent(buf)) >= 64)
>>               break;
> I'll tweak the commit message to crub mentions of coverity and replace
> them by description of the actual problem and push this.
Thanks for your proposal, I have already send an other improved patch 
"util: fix potential segfault".




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