Review Request: Check KFileItem d pointer for validity in KFileItem methods

Ignat Semenov ignat.semenov at blue-systems.com
Tue Oct 16 17:15:21 BST 2012


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(Updated Oct. 16, 2012, 4:15 p.m.)


Review request for kdelibs and David Faure.


Changes
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Fix issues.


Description
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Check the d pointer for validity since it is set to 0 by the defaut KFileItem ctor.

Patch based on similar code from QImage.

I'd like to draw your attention to these issues:

1) KFileItem::setUDSEntry()
For a null KFileItem, this should probably create a new d and initialize it. Ideally, we'd have a dedicated public function to do that (see QImage::create()), but since we can not change the public API (or can we?), I put the new in setUDSEntry(). Anyway, this is now the only interface function that can init a null KFileItem (before the patch, there had been none). All the other set* functions do not new the d, but rather return on d == 0.
2) KFileItem::cmp()
What should this return for a null KFileItem? I return false, but still, it feels wrong to me.
3) operator << / operator >>
<< returns "null KFileItem" for d == 0 and >> does nothing, returning the original stream unmodified. operator << thus duplicates the public operator <<(QDebug&).
4) This also overrides dfaure's patch for KFileItem::metaInfo(). There is a

return d->metaInfo()

at the end of the function, so this can crash as well.

All the classes' objects that are default-constructed and then returned in the case of d == 0 can be checked for validity, looked it up in the code.


This addresses bug 299726.
    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299726


Diffs (updated)
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  kio/kio/kfileitem.cpp 8ab5a1d 

Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106902/diff/


Testing
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Builds fine.


Thanks,

Ignat Semenov

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