Bug 501893 - String parameters should be checked for != NULL
Summary: String parameters should be checked for != NULL
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libguestfs
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Richard W.M. Jones
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Depends On: 501894
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-21 08:51 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2011-07-14 19:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-07-14 19:10:56 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2009-05-21 08:51:14 UTC 
We should check that NULL is not being passed
for String parameters.  At the moment if a program
does this, it probably causes a segfault.  The calling
program is technically incorrect, but we should check
for this case anyway, particularly since in some bindings
(eg. Perl) an undefined string parameter might be
passed as NULL.
Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2009-05-25 14:49:53 UTC 
Moving upstream, since it's only a safety check for incorrect programs
Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2010-05-19 11:34:48 UTC 
Patch posted upstream:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-May/msg00117.html
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