From: Amos Kong <kongjianjun@gmail.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: penberg@kernel.org, asias.hejun@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [PATCH] kvm tools: Add robust error handling for fork/waitpid()
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:12:50 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110418001250.4934.17958.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110416095543.GA7305@elte.hu>
> 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
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <kongjianjun@gmail.com>
---
tools/kvm/virtio-net.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/kvm/virtio-net.c b/tools/kvm/virtio-net.c
index f8d7276..430769a 100644
--- a/tools/kvm/virtio-net.c
+++ b/tools/kvm/virtio-net.c
@@ -311,13 +311,14 @@ static bool virtio_net__tap_init(const struct virtio_net_parameters *params)
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;
+ } else if (pid > 0) {
+ while(waitpid(pid, &status, 0) != pid) {
}
}
+ if (pid < 0 || (WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0)) {
+ warning("Fail to setup tap by %s", params->script);
+ goto fail;
+ }
} else {
memset(&ifr, 0, sizeof(ifr));
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-18 0:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-16 9:55 [PATCH] kvm tools: Setup bridged network by a script Ingo Molnar
2011-04-18 0:12 ` Amos Kong [this message]
2011-04-18 6:34 ` [PATCH] kvm tools: Add robust error handling for fork/waitpid() Ingo Molnar
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20110418001250.4934.17958.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6 \
--to=kongjianjun@gmail.com \
--cc=asias.hejun@gmail.com \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mingo@elte.hu \
--cc=penberg@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox