[libvirt] [PATCH] Protect against NULL pointer flaws in monitor usage (v2)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:31:25AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 11:13 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > History has shown that there are frequent bugs in the QEMU driver
> > code leading to the monitor being invoked with a NULL pointer.
> > Although the QEMU driver code should always report an error in
> > this case before invoking the monitor, as a safety net put in a
> > generic check in the monitor code entry points.
> > 
> > * src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c: Safety net to check for NULL monitor
> >   object
> 
> Any quick pointers on how this differs from v1?

It doesn't differ. I sent the wrong patch :-) I meant to re-send patch 1,
not patch 2


Daniel
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