Re: [PATCH] storage: avoid null deref on qemu-img failure

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On 10/21/2011 04:17 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
Dňa 21.10.2011 23:39, Eric Blake wrote / napísal(a):
Detected by Coverity. Only possible if qemu-img gives bogus output,
but we might as well be robust.

* src/storage/storage_backend.c
(virStorageBackendQEMUImgBackingFormat): Check for strstr failure.
---

- start = strstr(help, " create ");
- end = strstr(start, "\n");
+ if ((start = strstr(help, " create ")) == NULL ||
+ (end = strstr(start, "\n")) == NULL)
+ goto cleanup;

At least one call graph to this function does not contain adding a error
message of any kind. I think it would be fair to inform the user if his
qemu-img is somehow broken (although unlikely to happen), if we check
for this now.

I squashed this in:

diff --git i/src/storage/storage_backend.c w/src/storage/storage_backend.c
index 7c8bfdc..93c98d6 100644
--- i/src/storage/storage_backend.c
+++ w/src/storage/storage_backend.c
@@ -632,8 +632,12 @@ static int virStorageBackendQEMUImgBackingFormat(const char *qemuimg)
         goto cleanup;

     if ((start = strstr(help, " create ")) == NULL ||
-        (end = strstr(start, "\n")) == NULL)
+        (end = strstr(start, "\n")) == NULL) {
+        virStorageReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
+                              _("unable to parse qemu-img output '%s'"),
+                              help);
         goto cleanup;
+    }
     if (((tmp = strstr(start, "-F fmt")) && tmp < end) ||
         ((tmp = strstr(start, "-F backing_fmt")) && tmp < end))
         ret = QEMU_IMG_BACKING_FORMAT_FLAG;



ACK,

and pushed.  Thanks for the review.

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