Re: [PATCH] kvm tool: Don't close not yet opened files and SIGSEV fix

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On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
In case if there error happened in kvm__init and we have
no files opened -- we should not try to close them.

Also once kvm failed to init the caller should not try
to dereference a pointer obtained, otherwise we might get
SIGSEV

| [cyrill@moon kvm]$ ./lkvm run ...
|  Error: '/dev/kvm' not found. Please make sure your kernel has CONFIG_KVM enabled and that the KVM modules are loaded.
| Segmentation fault (core dumped)
| [cyrill@moon kvm]$

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/kvm/builtin-run.c |    4 ++++
tools/kvm/kvm.c         |   11 ++++++++---
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/tools/kvm/builtin-run.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/tools/kvm/builtin-run.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/tools/kvm/builtin-run.c
@@ -997,6 +997,10 @@ static int kvm_cmd_run_init(int argc, co
	}

	kvm = kvm__init(dev, hugetlbfs_path, ram_size, guest_name);
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(kvm)) {

PTR_ERR is still not going to work if kvm is NULL.

+		r = PTR_ERR(kvm);
+		goto fail;
+	}
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