Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 30/38] qtest: Avoid passing raw strings through hmp()

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Eric Blake (eblake@redhat.com) wrote:
> hmp() passes its string argument through the sprintf() family;
> with a proper attribute, gcc -Wformat warns us when we do something
> dangerous like passing a non-constant format string.  Fortunately,
> all our strings were safe, but checking whether the string can
> contain an unintended % is easy to avoid and therefore worth doing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> 

Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

> ---
> v7: add GCC_FMT_ATTR here, drop R-b
> ---
>  tests/libqtest.h | 8 ++++----
>  tests/test-hmp.c | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/libqtest.h b/tests/libqtest.h
> index 2a21bf4605..5651b77d2f 100644
> --- a/tests/libqtest.h
> +++ b/tests/libqtest.h
> @@ -153,14 +153,14 @@ QDict *qtest_qmp_eventwait_ref(QTestState *s, const char *event);
>  /**
>   * qtest_hmp:
>   * @s: #QTestState instance to operate on.
> - * @fmt...: HMP command to send to QEMU
> + * @fmt...: HMP command to send to QEMU, formats arguments like sprintf().
>   *
>   * Send HMP command to QEMU via QMP's human-monitor-command.
>   * QMP events are discarded.
>   *
>   * Returns: the command's output.  The caller should g_free() it.
>   */
> -char *qtest_hmp(QTestState *s, const char *fmt, ...);
> +char *qtest_hmp(QTestState *s, const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(2, 3);
> 
>  /**
>   * qtest_hmpv:
> @@ -585,13 +585,13 @@ static inline QDict *qmp_eventwait_ref(const char *event)
> 
>  /**
>   * hmp:
> - * @fmt...: HMP command to send to QEMU
> + * @fmt...: HMP command to send to QEMU, formats arguments like sprintf().
>   *
>   * Send HMP command to QEMU via QMP's human-monitor-command.
>   *
>   * Returns: the command's output.  The caller should g_free() it.
>   */
> -char *hmp(const char *fmt, ...);
> +char *hmp(const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(1, 2);
> 
>  /**
>   * get_irq:
> diff --git a/tests/test-hmp.c b/tests/test-hmp.c
> index 7ff47eda13..b3102daea1 100644
> --- a/tests/test-hmp.c
> +++ b/tests/test-hmp.c
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static void test_commands(void)
>          if (verbose) {
>              fprintf(stderr, "\t%s\n", hmp_cmds[i]);
>          }
> -        response = hmp(hmp_cmds[i]);
> +        response = hmp("%s", hmp_cmds[i]);
>          g_free(response);
>      }
> 
> @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static void test_info_commands(void)
>          if (verbose) {
>              fprintf(stderr, "\t%s\n", info);
>          }
> -        resp = hmp(info);
> +        resp = hmp("%s", info);
>          g_free(resp);
>          /* And move forward to the next line */
>          info = strchr(endp + 1, '\n');
> -- 
> 2.13.5
> 
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK