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From: zhanghailiang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, armbru@redhat.com,
	luonengjun@huawei.com, peter.huangpeng@huawei.com,
	qemu-stable@nongnu.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qga: Fix possible freed memory accessing
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:42:34 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <541AD33A.1040309@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <541ACD75.1040708@redhat.com>

On 2014/9/18 20:17, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/17/2014 09:33 PM, zhanghailiang wrote:
>> If readdir_r fails, error_setg_errno will reference the freed
>> pointer *dirpath*.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: zhanghailiang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   qga/commands-posix.c | 10 ++++++----
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>>       for (;;) {
>>           if (readdir_r(dir, &entry, &result) != 0) {
>
> Eww.  We're using readdir_r?  That's an inherently broken interface,
> which can risk buffer overflow.  readdir should be preferred.
>
> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=696
>

Yes, it is! Should i fix it in this patch together?;)

Thanks,
zhanghailiang

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-18 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18  3:33 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qga: Fix possible freed memory accessing zhanghailiang
2014-09-18  7:00 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-09-18 12:17 ` Eric Blake
2014-09-18 12:42   ` zhanghailiang [this message]
2014-09-18 12:53     ` Eric Blake

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