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| ktg |
 Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject: How to catch Null pointer invocations |
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Posts: 138
Location: India
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Hi All,
We are writing an API exit to catch all null pointer invocation by applications.
For example, application should issue MQPUT in the following format (correct way)
MQPUT(Hcon, /* connection handle */
Hobj, /* object handle */
&md, /* message descriptor */
&pmo, /* default options (datagram) */
messlen, /* message length */
buffer, /* message buffer */
&CompCode, /* completion code */
&Reason); /* reason code */
In case, if application passes NULL for any parameter, API exit need to log that error. For example passing pointer to message descriptor as null
MQPUT(Hcon, /* connection handle */
Hobj, /* object handle */
NULL, /* message descriptor */
&pmo, /* default options (datagram) */
messlen, /* message length */
buffer, /* message buffer */
&CompCode, /* completion code */
&Reason); /* reason code */
How can we catch this error.
In PutBefore entry point, there will be
void MQENTRY PutBefore ( PMQAXP pEP
, PMQAXC pEC
, PMQHCONN pHconn
, PMQHOBJ pHobj
, PPMQMD ppMsgDesc
, PPMQPMO ppPutMsgOpts
, PMQLONG pBufferLength
, PPMQVOID ppBuffer
, PMQLONG pCompCode
, PMQLONG pReason
)
if (ppMsgDesc == NULL || *ppMsgDesc == NULL)
is not catching the error.
if (ppMsgDesc == NULL || *ppMsgDesc == NULL || **ppMsgDesc == NULL ) gives compilation error (type mismatch)
What could be done?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
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| David.Partridge |
| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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Never mind the C semantics, what are you hoping to achieve?
What could you do in an API exit that would "do the right thing" in all (or even a small fraction of) cases - exit code can't be prescient or read the mind of the developer to change the invocation parameters so that the exit acts as a "Do what I meant".
If an application is going to crash and burn because a developer hasn't used tools such as "Lint" or even old fashioned desk checking, then it will crash and burn. If the developer is passing null pointers to the MQI, there are probably other fundamental errors in the code as well.
No amount of code in an API exit will protect them from that, and IMHO, nor should you attempt it.
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| ktg |
| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:59 am Post subject: |
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Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: India
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I was wrong when I said
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| "We are writing an API exit to catch all null pointer invocation by applications" |
Actually, we have an API exit for some other purpose. It was giving wrong results in production site.
Later it was found that, the wrong results were because of an MQPUT call with MQMD as NULL parameter. That situation was arising because of a bug in MQ. It was the report by team at production site.
Here, in the development environment we could not simulate the same problem. But, we were asked to make the API exit defensive against NULL pointer invocations.
Hence.........
Thanks,
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:39 am Post subject: |
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You can't fix that. What you can fix is force production to use the right version of MQ... i.e. the one you and QA tested with and did not have the problem.
Enjoy 
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