Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio pmem: remove memdev null check

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 13:05:53 +0530
Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> wrote:

> Coverity reports that when we're assigning vi->size we handle the 
> "pmem->memdev is NULL" case; but we then pass it into 
> object_get_canonical_path(), which unconditionally dereferences it
> and will crash if it is NULL. If this pointer can be NULL then we
> need to do something else here.
> 
> We are removing 'pmem->memdev' null check here as memdev will never
> be null in this function.

Indeed, we'll fail to realize the device if it is NULL.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
> ---
>  hw/virtio/virtio-pmem.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>