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* [PATCH v1] tools/libxc: report malloc errors in writev_exact
@ 2020-09-23  6:48 Olaf Hering
  2020-09-24 20:21 ` Andrew Cooper
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Olaf Hering @ 2020-09-23  6:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: Olaf Hering, Ian Jackson, Wei Liu

The caller of writev_exact should be notified about malloc errors
when dealing with partial writes.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
---


I think this is a backport candidate...


 tools/libs/ctrl/xc_private.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/libs/ctrl/xc_private.c b/tools/libs/ctrl/xc_private.c
index 8af96b1b7e..3fab94f9c0 100644
--- a/tools/libs/ctrl/xc_private.c
+++ b/tools/libs/ctrl/xc_private.c
@@ -721,6 +721,7 @@ int writev_exact(int fd, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt)
                     if ( !local_iov )
                     {
                         saved_errno = ENOMEM;
+                        rc = -1;
                         goto out;
                     }
 


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* Re: [PATCH v1] tools/libxc: report malloc errors in writev_exact
  2020-09-23  6:48 [PATCH v1] tools/libxc: report malloc errors in writev_exact Olaf Hering
@ 2020-09-24 20:21 ` Andrew Cooper
  2020-09-30 15:07   ` Wei Liu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Cooper @ 2020-09-24 20:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Olaf Hering, xen-devel; +Cc: Ian Jackson, Wei Liu

On 23/09/2020 07:48, Olaf Hering wrote:
> The caller of writev_exact should be notified about malloc errors
> when dealing with partial writes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>


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* Re: [PATCH v1] tools/libxc: report malloc errors in writev_exact
  2020-09-24 20:21 ` Andrew Cooper
@ 2020-09-30 15:07   ` Wei Liu
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Wei Liu @ 2020-09-30 15:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Cooper; +Cc: Olaf Hering, xen-devel, Ian Jackson, Wei Liu

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 09:21:10PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 23/09/2020 07:48, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > The caller of writev_exact should be notified about malloc errors
> > when dealing with partial writes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

Acked + applied.


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