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[for-4.7] xl: use xstrdup in cpurange_parse

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Wei Liu May 25, 2016, 1:23 p.m. UTC
This ensures buf is always valid when it is passed to strtok_r.

CID: 1291936

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
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Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>

This is a backport candidate.
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 tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Andrew Cooper May 25, 2016, 1:32 p.m. UTC | #1
On 25/05/16 14:23, Wei Liu wrote:
> This ensures buf is always valid when it is passed to strtok_r.
>
> CID: 1291936
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> ---
> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Ian Jackson May 25, 2016, 1:33 p.m. UTC | #2
Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH for-4.7] xl: use xstrdup in cpurange_parse"):
> This ensures buf is always valid when it is passed to strtok_r.
> 
> CID: 1291936
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>

> This is a backport candidate.

Really ?  malloc failing is vanishingly rare in practice nowadays and
the consequence is a crash (which is what xstrdup achieves anyway).

Ian.
Wei Liu May 25, 2016, 1:36 p.m. UTC | #3
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 02:33:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH for-4.7] xl: use xstrdup in cpurange_parse"):
> > This ensures buf is always valid when it is passed to strtok_r.
> > 
> > CID: 1291936
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> 
> > This is a backport candidate.
> 
> Really ?  malloc failing is vanishingly rare in practice nowadays and
> the consequence is a crash (which is what xstrdup achieves anyway).
> 

This is a fair argument. I will leave the judgement to you. If you don't
think this is worth backporting I won't insist. :-)

> Ian.
Wei Liu May 25, 2016, 1:44 p.m. UTC | #4
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 02:23:56PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> This ensures buf is always valid when it is passed to strtok_r.
> 
> CID: 1291936
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>

Pushed. Thanks everyone.
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diff --git a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
index 03ab644..d8530f0 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@  static int update_cpumap_range(const char *str, libxl_bitmap *cpumap)
  */
 static int cpurange_parse(const char *cpu, libxl_bitmap *cpumap)
 {
-    char *ptr, *saveptr = NULL, *buf = strdup(cpu);
+    char *ptr, *saveptr = NULL, *buf = xstrdup(cpu);
     int rc = 0;
 
     for (ptr = strtok_r(buf, ",", &saveptr); ptr;