From: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
To: Junjie Cao <junjie.cao@intel.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: berrange@redhat.com, peterx@redhat.com, junjie.cao@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] migration/file: fix type mismatch and NULL deref in multifd_file_recv_data
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:55:38 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bjflzgcl.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260413214549.926435-4-junjie.cao@intel.com>
Junjie Cao <junjie.cao@intel.com> writes:
> multifd_file_recv_data() stores the return value of qio_channel_pread()
> (ssize_t) in a size_t variable. On I/O error the -1 return value wraps
> to SIZE_MAX, producing a nonsensical read size in the error message.
>
> More critically, a short read (0 <= ret < data->size) is possible when
> the migration file is truncated. In that case qio_channel_pread()
> returns a non-negative value without setting *errp. The function then
> calls error_prepend(errp, ...) which dereferences *errp -- a NULL
> pointer -- crashing QEMU.
>
> Fix both issues by switching to qio_channel_pread_all() introduced in
> a previous patch, which retries on short reads and treats end-of-file
> as an error, so the caller no longer needs to check the byte count
> manually. Add ERRP_GUARD() so that error_prepend() works correctly
> even when errp is &error_fatal or NULL.
>
> Fixes: a49d15a38d3d ("migration/multifd: Support incoming mapped-ram stream format")
> Suggested-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Junjie Cao <junjie.cao@intel.com>
> ---
> migration/file.c | 13 +++++++------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/migration/file.c b/migration/file.c
> index 5618aced49..0853188601 100644
> --- a/migration/file.c
> +++ b/migration/file.c
> @@ -254,15 +254,16 @@ int file_write_ramblock_iov(QIOChannel *ioc, const struct iovec *iov,
>
> int multifd_file_recv_data(MultiFDRecvParams *p, Error **errp)
> {
> + ERRP_GUARD();
> MultiFDRecvData *data = p->data;
> - size_t ret;
> + int ret;
>
> - ret = qio_channel_pread(p->c, (char *) data->opaque,
> - data->size, data->file_offset, errp);
> - if (ret != data->size) {
> + ret = qio_channel_pread_all(p->c, (char *) data->opaque,
> + data->size, data->file_offset, errp);
> + if (ret != 0) {
> error_prepend(errp,
> - "multifd recv (%u): read 0x%zx, expected 0x%zx",
> - p->id, ret, data->size);
> + "multifd recv (%u): ",
> + p->id);
> return -1;
> }
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-14 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-13 21:45 [PATCH v3 0/4] io/channel: complete pread/pwrite_all API and fix multifd_file_recv_data Junjie Cao
2026-04-13 21:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] io/channel: introduce qio_channel_pread{v, }_all{, _eof}() Junjie Cao
2026-04-14 15:49 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-04-17 9:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] io/channel: introduce qio_channel_pread{v,}_all{,_eof}() Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-04-13 21:45 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] io/channel: introduce qio_channel_pwrite{v,}_all() Junjie Cao
2026-04-14 15:54 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] io/channel: introduce qio_channel_pwrite{v, }_all() Fabiano Rosas
2026-04-17 9:46 ` Daniel P. Berrangé via qemu development
2026-04-13 21:45 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] migration/file: fix type mismatch and NULL deref in multifd_file_recv_data Junjie Cao
2026-04-14 15:55 ` Fabiano Rosas [this message]
2026-04-13 21:45 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] tests/unit: add pread/pwrite _all tests for io channel file Junjie Cao
2026-04-14 16:01 ` Fabiano Rosas
2026-04-17 9:47 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-04-17 16:51 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] io/channel: complete pread/pwrite_all API and fix multifd_file_recv_data Junjie Cao
2026-04-17 9:48 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-04-17 14:04 ` Peter Xu
2026-04-26 8:15 ` Michael Tokarev
2026-04-26 8:21 ` Michael Tokarev
2026-04-29 14:24 ` Fabiano Rosas
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