From: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
To: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Ian Jackson <iwj@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 10/10] xs: add error handling
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:53:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78560c14-81dc-05de-26f8-15861459806d@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210226144144.9252-11-nmanthey@amazon.de>
Hi Norbert,
On 26/02/2021 14:41, Norbert Manthey wrote:
> In case of a failure deep in the call tree, we might return NULL as the
> value of the domain. In that case, error out instead of dereferencing
> the NULL pointer.
>
> This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
> Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.
This commit message is not very descriptive. Internally, I suggested:
"
tools/xenstore: Harden xs_domain_is_introduced()
The function single_with_domid() may return NULL if something
went wrong (e.g. XenStored returns an error or the connection is
in bad state).
They are unlikely but not impossible, so it would be better to
return an error and allow the caller to handle it gracefully rather
than crashing.
In this case we should treat it as the domain has disappeared (i.e.
return false) as the caller will not likely going to be able to
communicate with XenStored again.
This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.
"
I would have expected this to be addressed given that...
>
> Signed-off-by: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de>
> Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.co.uk
... you carried over my reviewed-by tag.
Cheers,
--
Julien Grall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-26 14:54 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
2021-02-26 14:41 ` [PATCH XENSTORE v1 10/10] xs: add error handling Norbert Manthey
2021-02-26 14:53 ` Julien Grall [this message]
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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