[PATCH] snapshot: require user to supply external memory file name

[Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

For disk snapshots, the user could request an external snapshot
but not supply a filename; later on, we would check this condition
and generate a suitable name if possible, or gracefully error out
when not possible (such as when the original file was a block
device).  But unless we come up with a suitable way to generate
external memory file names, we have no later code point that was
checking for NULL, so we should forbid this up front.

* src/conf/snapshot_conf.c (virDomainSnapshotDefParseString):
Avoid NULL deref, since we don't generate names yet.
---
 src/conf/snapshot_conf.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c b/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c
index 1ee4017..72bdd30 100644
--- a/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c
@@ -293,6 +293,12 @@ virDomainSnapshotDefParseString(const char *xmlStr,
                            memoryFile);
             goto cleanup;
         }
+        if (!memoryFile &&
+            def->memory == VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LOCATION_EXTERNAL) {
+            virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, "%s",
+                           _("external memory snapshots require a filename"));
+            goto cleanup;
+        }
     } else if (memoryFile) {
         def->memory = VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LOCATION_EXTERNAL;
     } else if (flags & VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_PARSE_REDEFINE) {
-- 
1.7.11.7

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