Re: [PATCH v2] Fix libvirtd crash possibility

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On 09/12/2012 05:00 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 04:44 PM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> When generating RPC protocol messages, it's strictly needed to have
>> continuousline of numbers or RPC messages. However in case anyone
> 
> s/continuousline/a continuous line/
> 
>> tries backporting some functionality and will skip a number, there is
>> a possibility to make the daemon segfault with newer virsh (version of
>> the library, rpc call, etc.) even unintentionally.
>>
>> The problem is that the skipped numbers will get func filled with
>> NULLs, but there is no check whether these are set before the daemon
>> tries to run them. This patch very simply enhances one check and fixes
>> that.
>> ---
>>  src/rpc/virnetserverprogram.c | 11 +++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> ACK.

If you haven't pushed yet, you may want to amend the commit message to
mention that this appears to be a regression introduced in commit
df0b57a9, in our RPC refactoring for 0.9.3.

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