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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] target/i386: avoid theoretical leak on MCE injection
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 2020 09:48:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201006074829.488968-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)

g_strdup_printf is used twice to write to the same variable, which
can theoretically cause a leak.  In practice, it is extremely
unlikely that a guest is seeing a recursive MCE and has disabled
CR4.MCE between the first and the second error, but we can fix it
and we can also make a slight improvement on the logic: CR4.MCE=0
causes a triple fault even for a non-recursive machine check, so
let's place its test first.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 target/i386/helper.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/target/i386/helper.c b/target/i386/helper.c
index 32fa21a7bb..f64379367d 100644
--- a/target/i386/helper.c
+++ b/target/i386/helper.c
@@ -908,16 +908,14 @@ static void do_inject_x86_mce(CPUState *cs, run_on_cpu_data data)
             return;
         }
 
-        if (recursive) {
-            need_reset = true;
-            msg = g_strdup_printf("CPU %d: Previous MCE still in progress, "
-                                  "raising triple fault", cs->cpu_index);
-        }
-
         if (!(cenv->cr[4] & CR4_MCE_MASK)) {
             need_reset = true;
             msg = g_strdup_printf("CPU %d: MCE capability is not enabled, "
                                   "raising triple fault", cs->cpu_index);
+        } else if (recursive) {
+            need_reset = true;
+            msg = g_strdup_printf("CPU %d: Previous MCE still in progress, "
+                                  "raising triple fault", cs->cpu_index);
         }
 
         if (need_reset) {
-- 
2.26.2



             reply	other threads:[~2020-10-06  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-06  7:48 Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-11-12 15:53 ` [PATCH] target/i386: avoid theoretical leak on MCE injection Peter Maydell

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