[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-manager] CephTools: improve abs_path error handling

Wolfgang Bumiller w.bumiller at proxmox.com
Fri Sep 25 09:41:40 CEST 2015


verify_blockdev_path didn't check the result of abs_path
causing commands like `pveceph createosd bad/path` to error
with a meaningless "Use of uninitialized value" message.
---
 PVE/CephTools.pm | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PVE/CephTools.pm b/PVE/CephTools.pm
index 68bf175..1c639e3 100644
--- a/PVE/CephTools.pm
+++ b/PVE/CephTools.pm
@@ -43,9 +43,11 @@ sub get_config {
 }
 
 sub verify_blockdev_path {
-    my ($path) = @_;
+    my ($rel_path) = @_;
 
-    $path = abs_path($path);
+    die "missing path" if !$rel_path;
+    my $path = abs_path($rel_path);
+    die "failed to get absolute path to $rel_path" if !$path;
 
     die "got unusual device path '$path'\n" if $path !~  m|^/dev/(.*)$|;
 
-- 
2.1.4





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