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From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Harmandeep Kaur <write.harmandeep@gmail.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com,
	stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] libxc: fix leak of t_info in xc_tbuf_get_size()
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:03:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1455184996.3148.282.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455184369.814.15.camel@citrix.com>


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On Thu, 2016-02-11 at 09:52 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-11 at 14:02 +0530, Harmandeep Kaur wrote:
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_tbuf.c b/tools/libxc/xc_tbuf.c
> > index 695939a..d96cc67 100644
> > --- a/tools/libxc/xc_tbuf.c
> > +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_tbuf.c
> > @@ -70,11 +70,13 @@ int xc_tbuf_get_size(xc_interface *xch,
> > unsigned long
> > *size)
> >                      sysctl.u.tbuf_op.buffer_mfn);
> >  
> >      if ( t_info == NULL || t_info->tbuf_size == 0 )
> > -        return -1;
> > +        rc = -1;
> > +    else
> > +	*size = t_info->tbuf_size;
> >  
> > -    *size = t_info->tbuf_size;
> > +    xenforeignmemory_unmap(xch->fmem, t_info, *size);
> 
> *size could be uninitialised here (in the error path) and even in the
> success case I don't think t_info->tbus_size is the right argument
> here, it
> needs to be the size which was passed to the map function, i.e.
> sysctl.u.tbuf_op.size.
> 
And I think both are issues with the current code, and, more important,
not what Coverity is complaining about in the referenced CID?

To be clear, I'm not arguing that they're not issues we should fix (I
don't know about the tbuf_size vs. tbuf_op.size, but I can check). I'm
genuinely asking whether we should do that here, as compared to in a
pre or follow up patch, and let this one be the one that placates
Coverity on that particular issue.

Regards,
Dario
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-11 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-11  8:32 [PATCH v2] libxc: fix leak of t_info in xc_tbuf_get_size() Harmandeep Kaur
2016-02-11  9:14 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-02-11  9:52 ` Ian Campbell
2016-02-11 10:03   ` Dario Faggioli [this message]
2016-02-11 10:11     ` Ian Campbell
2016-02-11 10:23       ` Dario Faggioli

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