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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] net: vmxnet: use g_new for pkt initialisation
@ 2016-08-16 11:28 P J P
  2016-08-16 11:29 ` Dmitry Fleytman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: P J P @ 2016-08-16 11:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Qemu developers; +Cc: Peter Maydell, Dmitry Fleytman, Jason Wang, Li Qiang

From: Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@360.cn>

When network transport abstraction layer initialises pkt, the maximum
fragmentation count is not checked. This could lead to an integer
overflow causing a NULL pointer dereference. Replace g_malloc() with
g_new() to catch the multiplication overflow.

Reported-by: Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@360.cn>
Signed-off-by: Prasad J Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>
---
 hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Update as per review:
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-08/msg02544.html

diff --git a/hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c b/hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c
index 53dfaa2..20b2549 100644
--- a/hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c
+++ b/hw/net/net_tx_pkt.c
@@ -65,10 +65,9 @@ void net_tx_pkt_init(struct NetTxPkt **pkt, PCIDevice *pci_dev,
 
     p->pci_dev = pci_dev;
 
-    p->vec = g_malloc((sizeof *p->vec) *
-        (max_frags + NET_TX_PKT_PL_START_FRAG));
+    p->vec = g_new(struct iovec, max_frags + NET_TX_PKT_PL_START_FRAG);
 
-    p->raw = g_malloc((sizeof *p->raw) * max_frags);
+    p->raw = g_new(struct iovec, max_frags);
 
     p->max_payload_frags = max_frags;
     p->max_raw_frags = max_frags;
-- 
2.5.5

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