Re: [PATCH] storage: avoid null deref and leak on failure

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On 05/03/2011 11:18 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 01:58 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Detected by clang.  NULL deref added in commit 343a27a (Mar 11),
>> but leak of voldef present since commit 2cd9b2d (Apr 09).
>>
>> * src/storage/storage_driver.c (storageVolumeCreateXML): Don't
>> leak voldef or dereference null volobj.
>> ---
>>   src/storage/storage_driver.c |    4 +++-
>>   1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/storage/storage_driver.c b/src/storage/storage_driver.c
>> index 1ea5d12..19c7d63 100644
>> --- a/src/storage/storage_driver.c
>> +++ b/src/storage/storage_driver.c
>> @@ -1319,8 +1319,10 @@ storageVolumeCreateXML(virStoragePoolPtr obj,
>>       pool->volumes.objs[pool->volumes.count++] = voldef;
>>       volobj = virGetStorageVol(obj->conn, pool->def->name, voldef->name,
>>                                 voldef->key);
>> +    if (!volobj)
>> +        goto cleanup;
> 
> At this point, voldef has been added into pool->volumes.objs[], but
> voldef hasn't been NULLed out yet, so there is an extra pointer to it.
> If you goto cleanup, you will end up calling
> virStorageVolDefFree(voldef), so that object will get freed, but
> pool->volumes.objs still has a pointer to it.
> 
> You either need to NULL out voldef, or remove it from
> pool->volumes.objs[] (ie, just decrement the count). I'm too tired to
> figure out which is more appropriate :-)

Good catch.  I think decrementing the count is correct.  v2 coming up.

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