On 11/28/13 19:32, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> writes: > >> qemu_opts_parse() can always return NULL, even if the QemuOptsList.desc in >> question would be trivial to satisfy (eg. because it's empty). For >> example: >> >> qemu_opts_parse() >> opts_parse() >> qemu_opts_create() >> id_wellformed() >> >> In practice: >> >> $ .../qemu-system-x86_64 -acpitable id=3 >> qemu-system-x86_64: -acpitable id=3: Parameter 'id' expects an identifier >> ** >> ERROR:vl.c:3491:main: assertion failed: (opts != NULL) >> Aborted (core dumped) >> >> $ .../qemu-system-x86_64 -smbios id=3 >> qemu-system-x86_64: -smbios id=3: Parameter 'id' expects an identifier >> Segmentation fault (core dumped) >> >> I checked all qemu_opts_parse() invocations (and all drive_def() >> invocations too, because it blindly forwards the former's retval). Only >> the two above examples look problematic. >> >> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> > > Your fix is fine. I didn't redo your search for other unsafe uses. > > Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> >
Ping -- please commit this. Thanks Laszlo