The subject line is pretty generic; it's better to add something like
the name of the function being fixed to minimize the chance of patch
name collision causing backporters minor confusion in deciding what to
backport.

On 04/28/2012 05:01 AM, Alex Jia wrote:
> In fact, the 'tapfd' is always NULL, the function 'virNetDevTapCreate()' 
> hasn't
> assign 'fd' to 'tapfd', when the function 'virNetDevSetMAC()' is failed then
> goto 'error' lable, finally, the VIR_FORCE_CLOSE() will deref a NULL 'tapfd'.

s/lable/label/

> 
> * util/virnetdevtap.c (virNetDevTapCreateInBridgePort): fix a NULL pointer 
> derefing. 
> 
> * How to reproduce?
> 
> $ cat > /tmp/net.xml <<EOF
> <network>
>   <name>test</name>
>   <forward mode='nat'/>
>   <bridge name='br1' stp='off' delay='1' />
>   <mac address='00:00:00:00:00:00'/>
>   <ip address='192.168.100.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'>
>     <dhcp>
>       <range start='192.168.100.2' end='192.168.100.254' />
>     </dhcp>
>   </ip>
> </network>
> EOF
> 
> $ virsh net-define /tmp/net.xml
> 
> $ virsh net-start test
> error: Failed to start network brTest
> error: End of file while reading data: Input/output error
> 

Pushed with commit message updated.

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