[PATCH 1/3] bluetooth: Add 'bluez.alias' property

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On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 16:20 +0200, Mikel Astiz wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanu.kaskinen at intel.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 12:30 -0300, jprvita at gmail.com wrote:
> >>  src/modules/bluetooth/module-bluetooth-device.c | 1 +
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/src/modules/bluetooth/module-bluetooth-device.c b/src/modules/bluetooth/module-bluetooth-device.c
> >> index c877df2..8695c80 100644
> >> --- a/src/modules/bluetooth/module-bluetooth-device.c
> >> +++ b/src/modules/bluetooth/module-bluetooth-device.c
> >> @@ -2243,6 +2243,7 @@ static int add_card(struct userdata *u) {
> >>      pa_proplist_sets(data.proplist, "bluez.path", device->path);
> >>      pa_proplist_setf(data.proplist, "bluez.class", "0x%06x", (unsigned) device->class);
> >>      pa_proplist_sets(data.proplist, "bluez.name", device->name);
> >> +    pa_proplist_sets(data.proplist, "bluez.alias", device->alias);
> >
> > device->alias is not guaranteed to be non-NULL, so this code can crash.
> > If the Alias property is non-optional in Bluez, bluetooth-util should
> > ensure that it is indeed always set.
> 
> BlueZ 4 API guarantees the property will be present, and therefore
> device->alias should always be set. The obvious exception is BlueZ
> misbehaving, but this condition might hold true for device->name as
> well, which we're not checking either.
> 
> I don't think there's any other scenario where the alias could be NULL
> and the name be set outside bluetooth-util.
> 
> So while your point is valid, I suggest we fix this in a later patch,
> in a similar way that the BlueZ 5 patchset does (set device_info_valid
> to -1 if any non-optional property is missing).

Ah, so this is fixed at least for BlueZ 5. Will the same property
parsing code be used for BlueZ 4? If not, does somebody promise to write
the fix for BlueZ 4?

-- 
Tanu

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