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Halil Pasic authored
Make VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER cope with null pointers. Previously the reward for trying to migrate an array with some null pointers in it was an illegal memory access, that is a swift and painless death of the process. Let's make vmstate cope with this scenario. The general approach is, when we encounter a null pointer (element), instead of following the pointer to save/load the data behind it, we save/load a placeholder. This way we can detect if we expected a null pointer at the load side but not null data was saved instead. Signed-off-by:
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by:
Guenther Hutzl <hutzl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by:
Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170222160119.52771-4-pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by:
Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>Halil Pasic authoredMake VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER cope with null pointers. Previously the reward for trying to migrate an array with some null pointers in it was an illegal memory access, that is a swift and painless death of the process. Let's make vmstate cope with this scenario. The general approach is, when we encounter a null pointer (element), instead of following the pointer to save/load the data behind it, we save/load a placeholder. This way we can detect if we expected a null pointer at the load side but not null data was saved instead. Signed-off-by:
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by:
Guenther Hutzl <hutzl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by:
Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170222160119.52771-4-pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by:
Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
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