Re: [PATCH 1/6] Introduce a set of APIs for managing architectures

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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:24:06AM +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 14:53:36 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > +virArch virArchFromHost(void)
> > +{
> > +    struct utsname ut;
> > +    virArch arch;
> > +
> > +    uname(&ut);
> > +
> > +    /* Some special cases we need to handle first
> > +     * for non-canonical names */
> > +    if (ut.machine[0] == 'i' &&
> > +        ut.machine[2] == '8' &&
> > +        ut.machine[3] == '6' &&
> > +        ut.machine[4] == '\0') {
> > +        arch = VIR_ARCH_I686;
> 
> This could access undefined memory in the unlikely case of ut.machine
> being just "i". Insert the ut.machine[1] != '\0' test to match the
> original code in qemu_command.c.

I decided it is better just to add a  'strlen(ut.machine) == 4'
test as the first thing in the conditional


Daniel
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