[PATCH 2/3] virQEMUCapsNewBinary: Avoid NULL dereference

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Mon Mar 30 11:02:36 UTC 2020


On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:24:59AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> Even with GLib it is still possible for virQEMUCapsNew() to
> return NULL because it calls virQEMUCapsInitialize() which is a
> wrapper over pthread_once() which may fail. At least, we still
> check for its retval. If it so happens that the virQEMUCapsNew()
> fails and returns NULL, we should not dereference it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>

Regards,
Daniel
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