[Qemu-devel] Patch for minor qemu heap corruption bug when the console is zero width

["Kenneth Duda" <kduda@arastra.com>]

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Hi everyone, here is another patch for a much less significant bug. If
your "vc" console width is 0, qemu corrupts the heap (because it
writes one character into a screen buffer that's been malloc'ed as
size 0).  I don't know if this bug ever causes problems in practice
--- I picked it up using mcheck() when debugging heap corruption due
to various slirp bugs.  Anyway, this trivial patch fixes the trivial
bug.  Feedback on what I can do to get patches like this applied most
appreciated!

Thanks,

   -Ken

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diff -burN qemu-snapshot-2006-03-27_23.orig/console.c qemu-snapshot-2006-03-27_23/console.c
--- qemu-snapshot-2006-03-27_23.orig/console.c	2006-03-11 07:35:30.000000000 -0800
+++ qemu-snapshot-2006-03-27_23/console.c	2006-04-06 00:25:41.000000000 -0700
@@ -407,7 +407,8 @@
     if (s->width < w1)
         w1 = s->width;
 
-    cells = qemu_malloc(s->width * s->total_height * sizeof(TextCell));
+    cells = qemu_malloc((s->width * s->total_height + 1) * sizeof(TextCell));
+    /* Add one extra in case s->width is 0, so we can still store one character. */
     for(y = 0; y < s->total_height; y++) {
         c = &cells[y * s->width];
         if (w1 > 0) {