On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 05:54:20PM +0800, Alex Jia wrote:
> On 10/27/2011 05:26 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 04:33:50PM +0800, Alex Jia wrote:
> >>On 10/27/2011 04:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>>On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 03:18:01PM +0800, ajia@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>>From: Alex Jia<ajia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>
> >>>>Detected by cppcheck, the previous function VIR_REALLOC_N(mounts, nmounts+1)
> >>>>can make sure mounts is a none null value, so it is redundant to check if
> >>>>mounts is null.
> >>>VIR_REALLOC_N is only executed inside the loop. Although it is unlikely,
> >>>in theory there can be zero iterations of the loop, in which case
> >>>'mounts' will be NULL at the point qsort is called.
> >>>
> >>>>* src/lxc/lxc_container.c: remove redundant check.
> >>>>
> >>>>Signed-off-by: Alex Jia<ajia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>---
> >>>> src/lxc/lxc_container.c | 5 ++---
> >>>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>>diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
> >>>>index 06ccf7e..f4879c3 100644
> >>>>--- a/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
> >>>>+++ b/src/lxc/lxc_container.c
> >>>>@@ -879,9 +879,8 @@ static int lxcContainerUnmountOldFS(void)
> >>>> }
> >>>> endmntent(procmnt);
> >>>>
> >>>>- if (mounts)
> >>>>- qsort(mounts, nmounts, sizeof(mounts[0]),
> >>>>- lxcContainerChildMountSort);
> >>>>+ qsort(mounts, nmounts, sizeof(mounts[0]),
> >>>>+ lxcContainerChildMountSort);
> >>>>
> >>>> for (i = 0 ; i< nmounts ; i++) {
> >>>> VIR_DEBUG("Umount %s", mounts[i]);
> >>>NACK, the check for NULL is correct
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Daniel
> >>Hi Daniel,
> >>My comment is wrong, but the following judgement should make sure
> >>mounts is non null:
> >><snip>
> >> if (!(mounts[nmounts++] = strdup(mntent.mnt_dir))) {
> If the previous VIR_REALLOC_N can't make sure 'mounts' is non null,
> whether we need to check 'mounts' to avoid dereferencing a NULL
> pointer in here again, for instance:
>
> if (!mounts || !(mounts[nmounts++] = strdup(mntent.mnt_dir))) {
The check for VIR_REALLOC_N ensures that mounts is non-NULL *if* there
is at least 1 iteration of the while() loop. The "if (mounts) qsort"
code is *outside* the while() loop, and has to cope with the scenario
where the while() loop had *zero* iterations.
Regards,
Daniel
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