Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr-tpm-proxy: Drop misleading check

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 08:10:09PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> Coverity is reporting in CID 1405304 that tpm_execute() may pass a NULL
> tpm_proxy->host_path pointer to open(). This is based on the fact that
> h_tpm_comm() does a NULL check on tpm_proxy->host_path and then passes
> tpm_proxy to tpm_execute().
> 
> The check in h_tpm_comm() is abusive actually since a spapr-proxy-tpm
> requires a non NULL host_path property, as checked during realize.
> 
> Fixes: 0fb6bd073230
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>

Applied to ppc-for-4.2, thanks.

> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_tpm_proxy.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_tpm_proxy.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_tpm_proxy.c
> index b835d25be6f6..ca1caec113f0 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_tpm_proxy.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_tpm_proxy.c
> @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static target_ulong h_tpm_comm(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
>          return H_FUNCTION;
>      }
>  
> -    trace_spapr_h_tpm_comm(tpm_proxy->host_path ?: "null", op);
> +    trace_spapr_h_tpm_comm(tpm_proxy->host_path, op);
>  
>      switch (op) {
>      case TPM_COMM_OP_EXECUTE:
> 

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