[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] libxl: initialize domid to 0 in libxl__create_stubdom

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 09:31 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 08:55 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 06:03 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > > The uninitialized domid may cause libxl__domain_make to fail.
> > > > 
> > > > In libxl__domain_make:
> > > > assert(!libxl_domid_valid_guest(*domid)).
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <liuw@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > That check seems pretty odd to me at first but the commit message of
> > > 22842:ccfa0527893e does a good job of explaining why so: 
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > although it's not clear why libxl__domain_make doesn't just set an
> > > invalid value as it's first act and save the callers the effort, the net
> > > result would still be the correct semantics for libxl_domid_valid_guest
> > > when the function exits.
> > > 
> > 
> > I think the commit message of 22842:ccfa0527893e says pretty clear that
> > it is caller's responsibility to initialize domid to a invalid value.
> 
> Only because that's how 22842 causes libxl__make_domain to be
> implemented, we are free to change it.
> 
> > However, libxl__make_domain sets domid=-1 a few lines after the check.
> > This confuses me.
> 
> Yeah, me too, that line could just be hoisted up to the first thing the
> function does with no loss of safety AFAICT.
 
I agree. I think at one point there might have been the expectation that
the domid passed to libxl__domain_make would then would be used in
xc_domain_create.
However it is not the case anymore, so the "safety check" is only
confusing and I think we should remove it.

---

libxl__domain_make: no need to check for domid validness

The domid parameter passed as an argument to libxl__domain_make is an
OUTPUT parameter only.
So there is no need to check for its validity on entry.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 37c77bacb52a tools/libxl/libxl_create.c
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_create.c        Mon May 23 17:38:28 2011 +0100
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_create.c        Thu Jun 09 14:36:25 2011 +0000
@@ -277,8 +277,7 @@ out:
 
 int libxl__domain_make(libxl__gc *gc, libxl_domain_create_info *info,
                        uint32_t *domid)
- /* on entry, libxl_domid_valid_guest(domid) must be false;
-  * on exit (even error exit), domid may be valid and refer to a domain */
+/* on exit (even error exit), domid may be valid and refer to a domain */
 {
     libxl_ctx *ctx = libxl__gc_owner(gc);
     int flags, ret, i, rc;
@@ -292,8 +291,6 @@ int libxl__domain_make(libxl__gc *gc, li
     xs_transaction_t t = 0;
     xen_domain_handle_t handle;
 
-    assert(!libxl_domid_valid_guest(*domid));
-
     uuid_string = libxl__uuid2string(gc, info->uuid);
     if (!uuid_string) {
         rc = ERROR_NOMEM;

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