Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: properly handle invalid fd/vhostfd from command line

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:52:44 +0800
Jason Wang <address@hidden> wrote:

> monitor_get_fd() may also be used to parse fd or vhostfd from command line, so
> we need to check whether the pointer of mon is NULL to avoid segmentation 
> fault
> when user pass invalid name of fd or vhostfd.

Invalid fdname is handled just fine, I have the impression this patch fixes
something else.

Could you elaborate on the real problem here and/or show to reproduce?

> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <address@hidden>
> ---
>  monitor.c |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
> index e602480..5bb4ff0 100644
> --- a/monitor.c
> +++ b/monitor.c
> @@ -2345,6 +2345,10 @@ int monitor_get_fd(Monitor *mon, const char *fdname)
>  {
>      mon_fd_t *monfd;
>  
> +    if (mon == NULL) {
> +        return -1;
> +    }
> +
>      QLIST_FOREACH(monfd, &mon->fds, next) {
>          int fd;
>  
> 
>