[Libvir] PATCH: BZ 426425: Fix truncated reading of config files

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:55:47AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >The virConfReadFile  API  has a fixed 4096 byte buffer it reads the config
> >file into, regardless of the config file size and silently drops any data
> >exceeding this. 
> 
> Ah, the joys of C ...
> 
> >+    if ((ret = fread(*buf, st.st_size, 1, fh)) != 1) {
> >+        free(buf);
> >+        buf = NULL;
> 
> I wonder if you meant to write *buf = NULL here?

Yes, indeed. I'll make that change before committing.

Dan.
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