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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] display: ensure qxl log_buf is a nul terminated string
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 10:45:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190121104545.GE30536@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190118173103.4903-2-berrange@redhat.com>

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 05:31:00PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> diff --git a/hw/display/qxl.c b/hw/display/qxl.c
> index 8e9a65e75b..eefdf4baac 100644
> --- a/hw/display/qxl.c
> +++ b/hw/display/qxl.c
> @@ -1763,7 +1763,8 @@ async_common:
>          qxl_set_mode(d, val, 0);
>          break;
>      case QXL_IO_LOG:
> -        trace_qxl_io_log(d->id, d->ram->log_buf);
> +        d->ram->log_buf[sizeof(d->ram->log_buf) - 1] = '\0';
> +        trace_qxl_io_log(d->id, (const char *)d->ram->log_buf);

This is a PCI BAR shared with the guest?  Then NUL termination is
subject to races with vcpu threads that modify log_buf[] while we access
it.

The safe way to do this is to copy in log_buf[] and then NUL-terminate
the local copy.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-21 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-18 17:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] trace: make systemtap easier to use for simple logging Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-18 17:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] display: ensure qxl log_buf is a nul terminated string Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-18 17:40   ` Eric Blake
2019-01-18 17:42     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-21  7:14   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-01-21 10:45   ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2019-01-22 14:17     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-18 17:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] trace: enforce that every trace-events file has a final newline Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-18 17:42   ` Eric Blake
2019-01-22 14:43     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-21 10:47   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-01-18 17:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] trace: forbid use of %m in trace event format strings Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-18 17:50   ` Eric Blake
2019-01-18 22:50     ` Alex Williamson
2019-01-22 14:32     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-22 17:19       ` Eric Blake
2019-01-22 17:23         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-22 18:10           ` Eric Blake
2019-10-18  9:31             ` Thomas Huth
2019-10-18  9:34               ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-18 17:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] trace: add ability to do simple printf logging via systemtap Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-18 18:14   ` Eric Blake
2019-01-21 10:53     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-01-22 14:34       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-01-22 14:39     ` Daniel P. Berrangé

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