[libvirt] [PATCH] win32: Properly handle TlsGetValue returning NULL

Matthias Bolte matthias.bolte at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 22 08:32:08 UTC 2012


Am 22. April 2012 04:32 schrieb Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>:
> On 04/21/2012 11:11 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
>> virThreadSelf tries to access the virThreadPtr stored in TLS for the
>> current thread via TlsGetValue. When virThreadSelf is called on a thread
>> that was not created via virThreadCreate (e.g. the main thread) then
>> TlsGetValue returns NULL as TlsAlloc initializes TLS slots to NULL.
>>
>> virThreadSelf can be called on the main thread via this call chain from
>> virsh
>>
>> vshDeinit
>> virEventAddTimeout
>> virEventPollAddTimeout
>> virEventPollInterruptLocked
>> virThreadIsSelf
>>
>> triggering a segfault as virThreadSelf unconditionally dereferences the
>> return value of TlsGetValue.
>>
>> Fix this by making virThreadSelf check the TLS slot value for NULL and
>> setting the given virThreadPtr accordingly.
>>
>> Reported by Marcel Müller.
>> ---
>>  src/util/threads-win32.c |   11 +++++++++--
>>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> ACK.

Thanks, pushed.

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