[Libvirt-cim] [PATCH] Fix potiential seg fault in parse_id()

23 Jun 2008

# HG changeset patch
# User Kaitlin Rupert <karupert@us.ibm.com>
# Date 1214246238 25200
# Node ID 3d2618df45908eecf363442d50e43297ebd77a62
# Parent  e3b5268c1b4e18a7b0bfe48d98d1f1017a4498c6
Fix potiential seg fault in parse_id().

It's possible to hit a seg fault with calling VSSDComponent's vssd_to_rasd(), VSSD's get_vssd_by_ref(), or VirtualSystemSnapshotService's destroy_snapshot().

Signed-off-by: Kaitlin Rupert <karupert@us.ibm.com>

diff -r e3b5268c1b4e -r 3d2618df4590 libxkutil/misc_util.c

--- a/libxkutil/misc_util.c	Fri Jun 13 18:39:12 2008 -0700
+++ b/libxkutil/misc_util.c	Mon Jun 23 11:37:18 2008 -0700
@@ -408,8 +408,8 @@
              char **name)
 {
         int ret;
-        char *tmp_pfx;
-        char *tmp_name;
+        char *tmp_pfx = NULL;
+        char *tmp_name = NULL;
 
         ret = sscanf(id, "%a[^:]:%as", &tmp_pfx, &tmp_name);
         if (ret != 2) {

    