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wild pointer in xenstat.c

PATCH New Charles Coffing 1 participant 1 message Oct 31, 2005

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PATCH 1/1 wild pointer in xenstat.c

There is an error in xenstat, such that a wild pointer is being dereferenced and written to.

tools/xenstat/libxenstat/src/xenstat.c +1 -1
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ static char *xenstat_get_domain_name(xen
 {
        char path[80];
        char *name;
-       unsigned int *len;
+       unsigned int len;
        struct xs_transaction_handle *xstranshandle;
 
        snprintf(path, sizeof(path),"/local/domain/%i/name",

domain_id);
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ static char *xenstat_get_domain_name(xen

                exit(1); /* Change this */
        }

- name = (char *) xs_read(handle->xshandle, xstranshandle, path,
len);
+ name = (char *) xs_read(handle->xshandle, xstranshandle, path,
&len);

        xs_transaction_end(handle->xshandle, xstranshandle, false);