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From: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@linux.ibm.com>
To: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spapr: Fix Coverity warning while validating nvdimm options
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:14:32 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9148d7ac-3ae9-3a97-fd21-9b15a1a8ee4d@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200227132816.191b80ac@bahia.home>

On 02/27/2020 05:58 PM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 13:49:27 +0100
> Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:
>
>>> -    qemu_uuid_parse(uuidstr, &uuid);
> ... cause a segv in there because uuidstr will be dereferenced at
> some point without checking if it's NULL.
>
> AFAICT there are two scenarios that can cause object_property_get_str()
> to return NULL:
> - the property doesn't exist
> - the property isn't a string
>
> This can probably never happen with the current code base but we
> can't about future changes. In order to ensure we abort rather
> than segv, I'd pass &error_abort to object_property_get_str().
Thanks! I just posted the V2 fixing this as well.

Regards,
Shivaprasad



      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-27 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-26 12:10 [PATCH] spapr: Fix Coverity warning while validating nvdimm options Shivaprasad G Bhat
2020-02-26 12:27 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-02-26 12:49 ` Greg Kurz
2020-02-27 12:28   ` Greg Kurz
2020-02-27 13:44     ` Shivaprasad G Bhat [this message]

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