Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] snapshot: require user to supply external memory file name

For disk snapshots, the user could request an external snapshot but not supply a filename; later on, we would check this condition and generate a suitable name if possible, or gracefully error out when not possible (such as when the original file was a block device). But unless we come up with a suitable way to generate external memory file names, we have no later code point that was checking for NULL, so we should forbid this up front. * src/conf/snapshot_conf.c (virDomainSnapshotDefParseString): Avoid NULL deref, since we don't generate names yet. --- src/conf/snapshot_conf.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c b/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c index 1ee4017..72bdd30 100644 --- a/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c @@ -293,6 +293,12 @@ virDomainSnapshotDefParseString(const char *xmlStr, memoryFile); goto cleanup; } + if (!memoryFile&& + def->memory == VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LOCATION_EXTERNAL) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, "%s", + _("external memory snapshots require a filename")); + goto cleanup; + } } else if (memoryFile) { def->memory = VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_LOCATION_EXTERNAL; } else if (flags& VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_PARSE_REDEFINE) {