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Re: [PATCH XENSTORE v1 10/10] xs: add error handling
- To: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:26:10 +0100
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- Cc: Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>, Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>, Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Kurth <mku@xxxxxxxxx>
- Delivery-date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 15:26:35 +0000
- List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>
On 2/26/21 3:53 PM, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Norbert,
>
> On 26/02/2021 14:41, Norbert Manthey wrote:
>> In case of a failure deep in the call tree, we might return NULL as the
>> value of the domain. In that case, error out instead of dereferencing
>> the NULL pointer.
>>
>> This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
>> Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.
>
> This commit message is not very descriptive. Internally, I suggested:
>
> "
> tools/xenstore: Harden xs_domain_is_introduced()
>
> The function single_with_domid() may return NULL if something
> went wrong (e.g. XenStored returns an error or the connection is
> in bad state).
>
> They are unlikely but not impossible, so it would be better to
> return an error and allow the caller to handle it gracefully rather
> than crashing.
>
> In this case we should treat it as the domain has disappeared (i.e.
> return false) as the caller will not likely going to be able to
> communicate with XenStored again.
>
> This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
> Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.
> "
>
> I would have expected this to be addressed given that...
Understood. I will iterate.
Norbert
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> ... you carried over my reviewed-by tag.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Julien Grall
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