Hi,
On 31.08.18 20:16, Liam Merwick wrote:
The dev_id returned by the call to blk_get_attached_dev_id() in
blk_root_get_parent_desc() can be NULL (an internal call to
object_get_canonical_path may have returned NULL) so it should
be checked before dereferencing.
Signed-off-by: Liam Merwick <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Mark Kanda <address@hidden>
---
block/block-backend.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/block-backend.c b/block/block-backend.c
index fa120630be83..210eee75006a 100644
--- a/block/block-backend.c
+++ b/block/block-backend.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static char *blk_root_get_parent_desc(BdrvChild *child)
}
dev_id = blk_get_attached_dev_id(blk);
- if (*dev_id) {
+ if (dev_id && *dev_id) {
return dev_id;
I rather think that blk_get_attached_dev_id() needs attention first. It
returns an explicitly empty string if blk->dev is NULL. If NULL was a
valid return value, it should just return NULL there.
Besides this caller, there are two callers that pass the dev_id to
qapi_event_send_device_tray_moved(). Now in practice that allows the
string to be NULL, but there is a comment in visit_type_str() that says
one should not pass NULL.
So it's either changing blk_get_attached_dev_id() to return NULL when
there is no valid ID (instead of the empty string, and then we could
save ourselves the check "*dev_id" here and elsewhere), but then we have
to fix all callers.
Or we make it return an empty string if object_get_canonical_path()
returned NULL.