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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] hw/nvram/fw_cfg: fix FWCfgDataGeneratorClass::get_data() consumption
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 17:15:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200916151510.22767-1-lersek@redhat.com> (raw)

The documentation on g_byte_array_free()
<https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Byte-Arrays.html#g-byte-array-free>
says:

> Returns
>
> the element data if free_segment is FALSE, otherwise NULL. The element
> data should be freed using g_free().

Because we currently call g_byte_array_free() with free_segment=TRUE, we
end up passing data=NULL to fw_cfg_add_file().

On the plus side, fw_cfg_data_read() and fw_cfg_dma_transfer() both deal
with NULL data gracefully: QEMU does not crash when the guest reads such
an item, the guest just gets a properly sized, but zero-filled blob.

However, the bug breaks UEFI HTTPS boot, as the IANA_TLS_CIPHER array,
generated otherwise correctly by the "tls-cipher-suites" object, is in
effect replaced with a zero blob.

Fix the issue by passing free_segment=FALSE to g_byte_array_free():

- the caller (fw_cfg_add_from_generator()) temporarily assumes ownership
  of the generated byte array,

- then ownership of the byte array is transfered to fw_cfg, as
  fw_cfg_add_file() links (not copies) "data" into fw_cfg.

Cc: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Fixes: 3203148917d035b09f71986ac2eaa19a352d6d9d
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
---
 hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
index f3a4728288eb..0e95d057fd51 100644
--- a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
+++ b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ bool fw_cfg_add_from_generator(FWCfgState *s, const char *filename,
         return false;
     }
     size = array->len;
-    fw_cfg_add_file(s, filename, g_byte_array_free(array, TRUE), size);
+    fw_cfg_add_file(s, filename, g_byte_array_free(array, FALSE), size);
 
     return true;
 }
-- 
2.19.1.3.g30247aa5d201


             reply	other threads:[~2020-09-16 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-16 15:15 Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2020-09-16 15:57 ` [PATCH] hw/nvram/fw_cfg: fix FWCfgDataGeneratorClass::get_data() consumption Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-16 16:30 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-09-18  8:34 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé

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