[libvirt] [PATCH v4] storage: Sanitize pool target paths

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue May 25 16:09:34 UTC 2010


On 05/25/2010 09:49 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Spurious / in a pool target path makes life difficult for apps using the
> GetVolByPath, and doing other path based comparisons with pools. This
> has caused a few issues for virt-manager users:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494005
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593565
> 
> Add a new util API which removes spurious /, virFileSanitizePath. Sanitize
> target paths when parsing pool XML, and for paths passed to GetVolByPath.
> 
> v2: Leading // must be preserved, properly sanitize path=/, sanitize
>     away /./ -> /
> 
> v3: Properly handle starting ./ and ending /.
> 
> v4: Drop all '.' handling, just sanitize / for now.

ACK - by simplifying the function, it's simpler to verify by code
inspection.  Thanks for the repeated attempts at this.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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