From: Fabian Deutsch <fabian.deutsch@gmx.de>
To: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Two VNC patches
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:00:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1228744827.3253.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081208135606.GE19711@arachsys.com>
Hey Chris,
Am Montag, den 08.12.2008, 13:56 +0000 schrieb Chris Webb:
> I sent this pair of VNC-related patches to the qemu-devel list a couple of
> weeks back and I'm not sure whether they've got lost in the cracks or were
> in some way not acceptable and need fixing up.
Can you resend them as inline patches?
Cheers fabian
> The first one is a straightforward bug-fix, and the second is a trivial
> convenience feature in the monitor which I imagine ought to be fairly
> uncontroversial?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
> E-Mail-Nachricht-Anlage
> > -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
> >
> > Fix off-by-one bug limiting VNC passwords to 7 characters instead of 8
> >
> > monitor_readline expects buf_size to include the terminating \0, but
> > do_change_vnc in monitor.c calls it as though it doesn't. The other site
> > where monitor_readline reads a password (in vl.c) passes the buffer length
> > correctly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
> > ---
> > monitor.c | 3 +--
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
> > index 22360fc..a252838 100644
> > --- a/monitor.c
> > +++ b/monitor.c
> > @@ -433,8 +433,7 @@ static void do_change_vnc(const char *target)
> > if (strcmp(target, "passwd") == 0 ||
> > strcmp(target, "password") == 0) {
> > char password[9];
> > - monitor_readline("Password: ", 1, password, sizeof(password)-1);
> > - password[sizeof(password)-1] = '\0';
> > + monitor_readline("Password: ", 1, password, sizeof(password));
> > if (vnc_display_password(NULL, password) < 0)
> > term_printf("could not set VNC server password\n");
> > } else {
> >
> E-Mail-Nachricht-Anlage
> > -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
> >
> > Accept password as an argument to 'change vnc password' monitor command
> >
> > This allows easier use of the change vnc password monitor command from
> > management scripts, without having to implement expect(1)-like behaviour.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
> > ---
> > monitor.c | 14 +++++++++-----
> > qemu-doc.texi | 8 ++++----
> > 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
> > index a252838..f6a2783 100644
> > --- a/monitor.c
> > +++ b/monitor.c
> > @@ -428,12 +428,16 @@ static void do_change_block(const char *device, const char *filename, const char
> > qemu_key_check(bs, filename);
> > }
> >
> > -static void do_change_vnc(const char *target)
> > +static void do_change_vnc(const char *target, const char *arg)
> > {
> > if (strcmp(target, "passwd") == 0 ||
> > strcmp(target, "password") == 0) {
> > char password[9];
> > - monitor_readline("Password: ", 1, password, sizeof(password));
> > + if (arg) {
> > + strncpy(password, arg, sizeof(password));
> > + password[sizeof(password) - 1] = '\0';
> > + } else
> > + monitor_readline("Password: ", 1, password, sizeof(password));
> > if (vnc_display_password(NULL, password) < 0)
> > term_printf("could not set VNC server password\n");
> > } else {
> > @@ -442,12 +446,12 @@ static void do_change_vnc(const char *target)
> > }
> > }
> >
> > -static void do_change(const char *device, const char *target, const char *fmt)
> > +static void do_change(const char *device, const char *target, const char *arg)
> > {
> > if (strcmp(device, "vnc") == 0) {
> > - do_change_vnc(target);
> > + do_change_vnc(target, arg);
> > } else {
> > - do_change_block(device, target, fmt);
> > + do_change_block(device, target, arg);
> > }
> > }
> >
> > diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi
> > index 1735d92..ca3b181 100644
> > --- a/qemu-doc.texi
> > +++ b/qemu-doc.texi
> > @@ -1233,11 +1233,11 @@ and @var{options} are described at @ref{sec_invocation}. eg
> > (qemu) change vnc localhost:1
> > @end example
> >
> > -@item change vnc password
> > +@item change vnc password [@var{password}]
> >
> > -Change the password associated with the VNC server. The monitor will prompt for
> > -the new password to be entered. VNC passwords are only significant upto 8 letters.
> > -eg.
> > +Change the password associated with the VNC server. If the new password is not
> > +supplied, the monitor will prompt for it to be entered. VNC passwords are only
> > +significant up to 8 letters. eg
> >
> > @example
> > (qemu) change vnc password
> >
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-08 13:56 Two VNC patches Chris Webb
2008-12-08 14:00 ` Fabian Deutsch [this message]
2008-12-08 14:11 ` Chris Webb
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