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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] security_20040618
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:44:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D45F74.9010701@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040618184036.GA1874@sentinelchicken.org>

Tim wrote:
> Updates to this, from the previous version two days ago, include
> additional strcpy replacements, as well as TODO comments pointing out
> unhealthy calls to {m,re}alloc, which don't check for NULL return
> values. (I am not sure how to handle error return codes in most places,
> so just comments for now.)  Also pstrcpy() in vl.c was simplified, but
> should behave exactly the same as before.

Thank you for the fixes.

For malloc() returning NULL, if your patch just says "malloc error", I 
don't consider it is a good fix.

I see that you added many snprintf(). I don't like that because 
pstrcpy() does exactly the right thing and it is faster and simpler.

Fabrice.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-19 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-18 18:40 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] security_20040618 Tim
2004-06-19  9:11 ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-06-19 15:19   ` Tim
2004-06-19 15:26     ` Gianni Tedesco
2004-06-19 15:44 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2004-06-19 16:01   ` Tim
2004-06-19 17:11     ` Fabrice Bellard
     [not found] <200406181841.i5IIfZQa019337@treas.simtreas.ru>
2004-06-19  7:37 ` Vladimir N. Oleynik
2004-06-19 15:05   ` Tim

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