Re: [PATCH] util: fix very old bug/typo in virNetDevParseVfInfo()

When this function was recently changed to add in parsing of IFLA_VF_STATS, I noticed that the checks for existence of IFLA_VF_MAC and IFLA_VF_VLAN were looking in the *wrong array*. The array that contains the results of parsing each IFLA_VFINFO in tb[IFLA_VFINFO_LIST] is tb_vf, but we were checking for these in tb (which is the array containing the results of the toplevel parsing of the netlink message, *not* the results of parsing one of the nested IFLA_VFINFO's. This incorrect code has been here since the function was originally written in 2012. It has only worked all these years due to coincidence - the items at those indexes in tb are IFLA_ADDRESS and IFLA_BROADCAST (of the *PF*, not of any of its VFs), and those happen to always be present in the toplevel netlink message; since we are only looking in the incorrect place to check for mere existence of the attribute (but are doing the actual retrieval of the attribute from the correct place), this bug has no real consequences other than confusing anyone trying to understand the code. Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/virnetdev.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virnetdev.c b/src/util/virnetdev.c index e284d62233..591a73cb45 100644 --- a/src/util/virnetdev.c +++ b/src/util/virnetdev.c @@ -1691,7 +1691,7 @@ virNetDevParseVfInfo(struct nlattr **tb, int32_t vf, virMacAddrPtr mac, return rc; } - if (mac && tb[IFLA_VF_MAC]) { + if (mac && tb_vf[IFLA_VF_MAC]) { vf_mac = RTA_DATA(tb_vf[IFLA_VF_MAC]); if (vf_mac && vf_mac->vf == vf) { virMacAddrSetRaw(mac, vf_mac->mac); @@ -1699,7 +1699,7 @@ virNetDevParseVfInfo(struct nlattr **tb, int32_t vf, virMacAddrPtr mac, } } - if (vlanid && tb[IFLA_VF_VLAN]) { + if (vlanid && tb_vf[IFLA_VF_VLAN]) { vf_vlan = RTA_DATA(tb_vf[IFLA_VF_VLAN]); if (vf_vlan && vf_vlan->vf == vf) { *vlanid = vf_vlan->vlan;