From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: den@openvz.org, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] io/channel-websock: fix an unauthenticated crash in the handshake
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:01:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831100151.914178-1-den@openvz.org> (raw)
A client which can reach a VNC websocket port crashes QEMU before it has
authenticated, by sending an HTTP greeting whose request line holds no
space:
printf 'stats\r\nx\r\n\r\n' | nc $host $port
Three defects line up to produce it. The greeting is rejected without
queueing a response, so the handshake goes on to flush an empty buffer.
A zero length sendmsg() succeeds and returns 0, which
qio_channel_socket_writev() mistakes for failure and reports as
QIO_CHANNEL_ERR_BLOCK with errp left unset. The handshake treats every
negative return as fatal and hands that NULL Error to
error_get_pretty(). Patches 1 to 3 close the three links.
Patch 5 is the same NULL Error on the read side of the handshake, where
ERR_BLOCK is folded into -1. It is reachable for a wss:// client, whose
master channel is then a TLS channel: a wakeup carrying only part of a
record makes gnutls report EAGAIN.
The tests drive the handshake through a channel which reports ERR_BLOCK
on demand, covering both directions. No test reproduces the original
crash itself, which turns on a stale errno and is not reliably
reproducible in a unit test. What they pin is that a 400 is emitted and
that ERR_BLOCK no longer reaches error_get_pretty().
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
CC: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Denis V. Lunev (6):
io/channel-socket: do not treat a zero length write as an error
io/channel-websock: send an HTTP 400 when the greeting has no space
io/channel-websock: handle a blocked write during the handshake
tests/unit: add websock handshake test
io/channel-websock: do not lose QIO_CHANNEL_ERR_BLOCK while reading
tests/unit: cover blocked IO during the websock handshake
io/channel-socket.c | 2 +-
io/channel-websock.c | 10 +-
tests/unit/meson.build | 1 +
tests/unit/test-io-channel-websock.c | 249 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 260 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tests/unit/test-io-channel-websock.c
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2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-31 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-31 10:01 Denis V. Lunev [this message]
2026-08-31 10:01 ` [PATCH 1/6] io/channel-socket: do not treat a zero length write as an error Denis V. Lunev
2026-09-01 17:31 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-08-31 10:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] io/channel-websock: send an HTTP 400 when the greeting has no space Denis V. Lunev
2026-09-01 17:23 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-08-31 10:01 ` [PATCH 3/6] io/channel-websock: handle a blocked write during the handshake Denis V. Lunev
2026-09-01 17:24 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-08-31 10:01 ` [PATCH 4/6] tests/unit: add websock handshake test Denis V. Lunev
2026-09-01 17:25 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-08-31 10:01 ` [PATCH 5/6] io/channel-websock: do not lose QIO_CHANNEL_ERR_BLOCK while reading Denis V. Lunev
2026-09-01 17:26 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-08-31 10:01 ` [PATCH 6/6] tests/unit: cover blocked IO during the websock handshake Denis V. Lunev
2026-09-01 17:30 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-08-31 11:29 ` [PATCH 0/6] io/channel-websock: fix an unauthenticated crash in the handshake marcandre.lureau
2026-08-31 11:33 ` Denis V. Lunev
2026-09-01 17:54 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-09-02 10:19 ` Mauro Matteo Cascella
2026-09-01 17:43 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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