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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 9/9] xen/p2m/debugfs: Fix potential pointer excep

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:18:17AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 20:52 +0100, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > We could be referencing the last + 1 element of level_name[]
> > array which would cause a pointer exception.
> 
> If we end up accessing it does that not mean something, i.e. should it
> not be a real string here and not NULL? Otherwise isn't it a bug in the
> lookup code that we end up looking there?

Yup. I altereted it per your recommendation to be "error".

> 
> I think this lookup correspond to the initialisation of lvl=4 and
> falling through the subsequent list of checks without matching one. In
> which case I think level_name[4] should be "unknown" or even "error".

Picked "error"
> 
> I don't think you can hit type_name[4] in the same way, type and
> prev_type are always one of the TYPE_* defines, which have values 0..3
> inclusive. You could make this more obvious and defend against future
> changes breaking this with:
>       ... type_name[] = {
>               [TYPE_IDENTITY] = "identity",
>               [TYPE_MISSING] = "missing"
>               ...
>       };

Oooh, pretty. OK, queued another patch with that.

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