Re: [PATCH 1/1] s390x/s390-virtio-ccw: fix off-by-one in loadparm getter

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 15:02:22 +0200
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> As pointed out by Peter, g_memdup(ms->loadparm, sizeof(ms->loadparm) + 1)
> reads one past of the end of ms->loadparm, so g_memdup() can not be used
> here.
> 
> Let's use malloc and memcpy instead!

Hm, an alternative would be to use g_strndup(). What do you think?

> 
> Fixes: d664548328 ("s390x/s390-virtio-ccw: fix loadparm property getter")
> Fixes: Coverity CID 1431058
> Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c
> index 403d30e13b..8b7bac0392 100644
> --- a/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c
> +++ b/hw/s390x/s390-virtio-ccw.c
> @@ -704,8 +704,8 @@ static char *machine_get_loadparm(Object *obj, Error **errp)
>      char *loadparm_str;
>  
>      /* make a NUL-terminated string */
> -    loadparm_str = g_memdup(ms->loadparm, sizeof(ms->loadparm) + 1);
> -    loadparm_str[sizeof(ms->loadparm)] = 0;
> +    loadparm_str = g_malloc0(sizeof(ms->loadparm) + 1);
> +    memcpy(loadparm_str, ms->loadparm, sizeof(ms->loadparm));
>      return loadparm_str;
>  }
>  
> 
> base-commit: 5772f2b1fc5d00e7e04e01fa28e9081d6550440a