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


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