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* Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Setup bridged network by a script
@ 2011-04-16  9:55 Ingo Molnar
  2011-04-18  0:12 ` [PATCH] kvm tools: Add robust error handling for fork/waitpid() Amos Kong
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Molnar @ 2011-04-16  9:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pekka Enberg; +Cc: KVM devel mailing list, Amos Kong


Hi, i noticed this small detail:

+       if (strcmp(params->script, "none")) {
+               pid = fork();
+               if (pid == 0) {
+                       execl(params->script, params->script, net_device.tap_name, NULL);
+                       _exit(1);
+               } else {
+                       waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
+                       if (WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0) {
+                               warning("Fail to setup tap by %s", params->script);
+                               goto fail;
+                       }
+               }

this path does not seem to have robust error handling: both fork() and 
waitpid() can (and sometimes do) fail. If waitpid() fails then 'status' might 
be ununitialized as well, IIRC.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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