[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Avoid crashes in qemuDomainMachineIs*()

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Tue, 2017-10-10 at 16:10 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be much safer to leave the newly-added NULL checks
> > in place so that the qemuDomainMachineIs*() functions are locally
> > correct instead of relying on external guarantees in order not
> > to crash on the user?
> 
> Are these qemuDomainMachineIs* functions the only places that makes
> assumptions about machine being non-NULL though ?

I guess we don't know.

And that's why assumptions should be verified locally :)

> I wouldn't want to
> encourage the idea that it is OK to have a NULL machine value, because
> that would just push crashes to elsewhere in the code if people rely
> on it.

Okay, I'll drop those hunks from the respin then.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization