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Authored by ngie on Mar 20 2017, 6:08 PM.
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Summary

Handle kd == NULL gracefully with kvm_close(3)

Don't segfault in kvm_close(3) if provided a NULL pointer. Instead, return
-1 and set errno to EINVAL.

Document this new behavior explicitly.

MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon

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Add kvm_open(3) manpage changes (oddly, arc diff --create didn't complain
about the second arg being invalid -- hah!)

lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
247 ↗(On Diff #26459)

This needs to be changed

Remove * before description of kd argument passed to kvm_close in the ERRORS section

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 20 2017, 6:22 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.