[libvirt] [PATCH] libxl: avoid a dereference of a null pointer

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Tue Sep 6 22:03:17 UTC 2011


Alex Jia wrote:
> Variable 'l_disk' initialized to a null pointer value, control jumps to 'case
> VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_DEVICE_DISK and then taking false branch, Within the expansion
> of the macro 'libxlError': Field access results in a dereference of a null 
> pointer (loaded from variable 'l_disk').
>
> * src/libxl/libxl_driver.c: Field access results in a dereference of a null
>   pointer (loaded from variable 'l_disk')
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Jia <ajia at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/libxl/libxl_driver.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
> index 91da438..bbc3059 100644
> --- a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
> +++ b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
> @@ -3016,7 +3016,7 @@ libxlDomainDetachDeviceDiskLive(libxlDomainObjPrivatePtr priv,
>              } else {
>                  libxlError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
>                          _("disk bus '%s' cannot be hot unplugged."),
> -                        virDomainDiskBusTypeToString(l_disk->bus));
> +                        virDomainDiskBusTypeToString(dev->data.disk->bus));
>              }
>              break;
>          default:
>   

ACK.

Thanks,
Jim




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