From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests/tcg: fix buffer overflow in multiarch/linux/linux-sigrtminmax
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:40:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cxwxtrpg.fsf@draig.linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260708150541.2137546-1-jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> (Max Filippov's message of "Wed, 8 Jul 2026 08:05:41 -0700")
Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> writes:
> Fix new_argv allocation size to be `(argc + 2) * sizeof(char *)` bytes,
> which matches the way it's used to store `argc + 2` pointers.
>
> This fixes the test for me, which otherwise fails on xtensa with the
> following message
>
> linux-sigrtminmax.c: 59: main: Assertion `execve(new_argv[0], new_argv, environ) == 0' failed.'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
> tests/tcg/multiarch/linux/linux-sigrtminmax.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tests/tcg/multiarch/linux/linux-sigrtminmax.c b/tests/tcg/multiarch/linux/linux-sigrtminmax.c
> index a7059aacd9cb..b5ea65f3d393 100644
> --- a/tests/tcg/multiarch/linux/linux-sigrtminmax.c
> +++ b/tests/tcg/multiarch/linux/linux-sigrtminmax.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> assert(qemu);
>
> if (!getenv("QEMU_RTSIG_MAP")) {
> - char **new_argv = malloc((argc + 2) + sizeof(char *));
> + char **new_argv = malloc((argc + 2) * sizeof(char *));
> int tsig1, hsig1, count1, tsig2, hsig2, count2;
> char rt_sigmap[64];
--
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-08 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-08 15:05 [PATCH] tests/tcg: fix buffer overflow in multiarch/linux/linux-sigrtminmax Max Filippov
2026-07-08 15:40 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2026-07-08 20:02 ` Richard Henderson
2026-07-08 20:45 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2026-07-09 8:37 ` Ilya Leoshkevich
2026-07-09 8:56 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-07-09 8:58 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-07-09 9:09 ` Alex Bennée
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