From: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
To: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>, Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.co.uk>,
Michael Kurth <mku@amazon.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH XENSTORE v1 09/10] xs: handle daemon socket error
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 15:04:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24640.63232.437509.771806@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99bc1eef-7e1f-39b4-f0b7-59b6f52185aa@amazon.de>
Norbert Manthey writes ("Re: [PATCH XENSTORE v1 09/10] xs: handle daemon socket error"):
> On 3/3/21 5:13 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Norbert Manthey writes ("[PATCH XENSTORE v1 09/10] xs: handle daemon socket error"):
> >> When starting the daemon, we might see a NULL pointer instead of the
> >> path to the socket.
..
> > ... this is client code ?
>
> This is client code, yes. The patched 'get_handle' function receives the
> parameter 'connect_to' in the function xs_open. There, the value of the
> functions 'xs_deamon_socket_ro', 'xs_deamon_socket' and 'xs_domain_dev'
> are passed to this function, without checking for the value NULL.
>
> I agree that the description might be confusing, as the fix is applied
> to a function that does not cause the actual problem. How about
> rephrasing the first part of the commit message to the above proposal?
Improving the commit message seems to me to be needed in any case
since as far as I can tell from what I read here, the existing one is
actualy wrong :-).
With my maintainer/reviewer hat on, I think this new exit path
involves returning an error from this function without setting errno,
so it's wrong ?
As for the release, I think this is a very low-impact bug and now it
seems not 100% obvious, so unless someone would like to explain why it
should go into 4.15 I'd like to see it in -next.
Thanks,
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-26 14:41 [PATCH XENSTORE v1 00/10] Code analysis fixes Norbert Manthey
2021-02-26 14:41 ` [PATCH XENSTORE v1 01/10] xenstore: add missing NULL check Norbert Manthey
2021-03-02 5:07 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-03-03 16:07 ` Ian Jackson
2021-02-26 14:41 ` [PATCH XENSTORE v1 02/10] xenstore: fix print format string Norbert Manthey
2021-03-02 5:07 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-03-03 16:08 ` Ian Jackson
2021-02-26 14:41 ` [PATCH XENSTORE v1 03/10] xenstore: check formats of trace Norbert Manthey
2021-03-02 5:08 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-03-03 16:08 ` Ian Jackson
2021-02-26 14:41 ` [PATCH XENSTORE v1 04/10] xenstore_client: handle memory on error Norbert Manthey
2021-03-02 5:08 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-03-03 16:10 ` Ian Jackson
2021-02-26 14:41 ` [PATCH XENSTORE v1 05/10] xenstore: handle daemon creation errors Norbert Manthey
2021-03-02 5:08 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-03-03 16:10 ` Ian Jackson
2021-02-26 14:41 ` [PATCH XENSTORE v1 06/10] xenstored: handle port reads correctly Norbert Manthey
2021-02-26 15:36 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-03-02 5:15 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-03-02 7:48 ` Norbert Manthey
2021-03-02 8:12 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-02-26 14:41 ` [PATCH XENSTORE v1 07/10] xenstore: handle do_mkdir and do_rm failure Norbert Manthey
2021-03-02 5:09 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-03-03 16:11 ` Ian Jackson
2021-02-26 14:41 ` [PATCH XENSTORE v1 08/10] xenstore: add missing NULL check Norbert Manthey
2021-03-02 5:10 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-03-03 16:11 ` Ian Jackson
2021-02-26 14:41 ` [PATCH XENSTORE v1 09/10] xs: handle daemon socket error Norbert Manthey
2021-03-02 5:10 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-03-03 16:13 ` Ian Jackson
2021-03-04 14:58 ` Norbert Manthey
2021-03-04 15:04 ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2021-02-26 14:41 ` [PATCH XENSTORE v1 10/10] xs: add error handling Norbert Manthey
2021-02-26 14:53 ` Julien Grall
2021-02-26 15:26 ` Norbert Manthey
2021-03-02 5:11 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-03-03 16:13 ` Ian Jackson
2021-03-01 18:01 ` [for-4.15] Re: [PATCH XENSTORE v1 00/10] Code analysis fixes Julien Grall
2021-03-01 19:39 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-03-02 10:04 ` Julien Grall
2021-03-03 18:45 ` Julien Grall
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