[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] impi: check return of qemu_chr_fe_write() for errors

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

The continue_send() method in ipmi_bmc_extern.c directly
assigns the return value of qemu_chr_fe_write() to the
variable tracking the I/O buffer offset. This ignores the
possibility that the return value could be -1 and so will
cause I/O go backwards on EAGAIN. Fortunately 'outpos' is
unsigned, so can't go negative - it will become MAX_INT
which will cause the loop to stop, and avoid an accidental
out of bounds array access.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 hw/ipmi/ipmi_bmc_extern.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/ipmi/ipmi_bmc_extern.c b/hw/ipmi/ipmi_bmc_extern.c
index 157879e..5d5b4e4 100644
--- a/hw/ipmi/ipmi_bmc_extern.c
+++ b/hw/ipmi/ipmi_bmc_extern.c
@@ -100,12 +100,16 @@ ipmb_checksum(const unsigned char *data, int size, unsigned char start)
 
 static void continue_send(IPMIBmcExtern *ibe)
 {
+    int ret;
     if (ibe->outlen == 0) {
         goto check_reset;
     }
  send:
-    ibe->outpos += qemu_chr_fe_write(ibe->chr, ibe->outbuf + ibe->outpos,
-                                     ibe->outlen - ibe->outpos);
+    ret = qemu_chr_fe_write(ibe->chr, ibe->outbuf + ibe->outpos,
+                            ibe->outlen - ibe->outpos);
+    if (ret > 0) {
+        ibe->outpos += ret;
+    }
     if (ibe->outpos < ibe->outlen) {
         /* Not fully transmitted, try again in a 10ms */
         timer_mod_ns(ibe->extern_timer,
-- 
2.7.4