qemu-devel.nongnu.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] migration/multifd: Ensure packet->ramblock is null-terminated
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:47:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zuxjs7ld4f1fGQJe@x1n> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240919150611.17074-1-farosas@suse.de>

On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 12:06:11PM -0300, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
> Coverity points out that the current usage of strncpy to write the
> ramblock name allows the field to not have an ending '\0' in case
> idstr is already not null-terminated (e.g. if it's larger than 256
> bytes).
> 
> This is currently harmless because the packet->ramblock field is never
> touched again on the source side. The destination side reads only up
> to the field's size from the stream and forces the last byte to be 0.
> 
> We're still open to a programming error in the future in case this
> field is ever passed into a function that expects a null-terminated
> string.
> 
> Change from strncpy to QEMU's pstrcpy, which puts a '\0' at the end of
> the string and doesn't fill the extra space with zeros.
> 
> (there's no spillage between iterations of fill_packet because after
> commit 87bb9e953e ("migration/multifd: Isolate ram pages packet data")
> the packet is always zeroed before filling)
> 
> Resolves: Coverity CID 1560071
> Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>

queued.

-- 
Peter Xu



      reply	other threads:[~2024-09-19 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-19 15:06 [PATCH] migration/multifd: Ensure packet->ramblock is null-terminated Fabiano Rosas
2024-09-19 17:47 ` Peter Xu [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=Zuxjs7ld4f1fGQJe@x1n \
    --to=peterx@redhat.com \
    --cc=farosas@suse.de \
    --cc=peter.maydell@linaro.org \
    --cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).