[libvirt] [PATCH v3] storage: Sanitize pool target paths

[Eric Blake]

On 05/25/2010 09:49 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> This function is crying out for a real test case to be written and put
>> under tests/, feeding it all sorts of evil input.
>>
> 
> Agreed, however I'm backtracking a bit on this, my next post is only
> going to sanitize spurious /, like my original posting (but with the
> original comments addressed).

Which is all the more argument for a gnulib module that does text-based
sanitization on the user's behalf.  I'll see about adding that, and in
the meantime,...

> 
> A user can accidentally add an extra slash to a pool target, and its
> reasonable to expect it won't cause cause problems, but the same can't
> be said for relative path characters. This function is becoming
> impossible to review (the current posting goes into infinite loop with a
> path like /foo./bar), and most of the logic is not helping solve a real
> world problem.
> 
> This patch is going to be backported to a few places: less complex the
> better. Oh, and I'm lazy :)

I agree with Cole's approach of minimizing this particular fix to the
particular problem raised.  A fancy gnulib solution is not as important
as a duplicated slash solution.

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

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