From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: weidong.huang@huawei.com, luonengjun@huawei.com,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, arei.gonglei@huawei.com,
stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] audio: Fix using freed pointer in wav_fini_out
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:59:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1402646365.21444.21.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <539AAC98.8010902@redhat.com>
On Fr, 2014-06-13 at 09:47 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 13/06/2014 09:15, Markus Armbruster ha scritto:
> > I'm afraid this is not an improvement.
> >
> > Your patch makes the code ignore fclose() failure silently. This is a
> > common mistake. fclose() failure after write can mean data loss, and
> > the user certainly needs to know about that.
>
> If you want that, the best solution is to first fflush() and then
> fclose().
Agree. If you really care you'll go flush/sync before close, so you
still have a valid file handle when you see the failure.
Question is do we really need that here? This isn't your virtual disk,
it's just a few audio samples which might get lost ...
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-13 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-13 1:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] audio: Fix using freed pointer in wav_fini_out arei.gonglei
2014-06-13 7:15 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-06-13 7:23 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-13 7:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-13 7:59 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2014-06-13 8:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-13 8:32 ` Gonglei (Arei)
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