Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] vmware_vga: stop crashing

[Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>]

Can confirm that this patch fixes a crash which also occoured here. Since 
window was out of the VNC window, crash was reproduceable and has been 
removed reproduceable.

Tested-by: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>

Please apply ASAP.

Ciao,
Gerhard

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On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Serge Hallyn wrote:

>
> if x or y < 0, set them to 0 (and decrement width/height accordingly)>
>
> I don't know where the best place to catch this would be, but
> with vnc and vmware_vga it's possible to get set_bit called on
> a negative index, crashing qemu.  See
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/918791
>
> for details.  This patch prevents that.  It's possible this
> should be caught earlier, but this patch works for me.
>
> Changelog:
> 	Mar 5: As Ryan Harper pointed out, don't mix tabs+spaces,
> 	       and put {} around all conditionals.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
> ---
> hw/vmware_vga.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/vmware_vga.c b/hw/vmware_vga.c
> index 142d9f4..c94f9f3 100644
> --- a/hw/vmware_vga.c
> +++ b/hw/vmware_vga.c
> @@ -298,6 +298,24 @@ static inline void vmsvga_update_rect(struct vmsvga_state_s *s,
>     uint8_t *src;
>     uint8_t *dst;
>
> +    if (x < 0) {
> +        fprintf(stderr, "%s: update x was < 0 (%d, w %d)\n",
> +                        __FUNCTION__, x, w);
> +        w += x;
> +        if (w < 0) {
> +            return;
> +        }
> +        x = 0;
> +    }
> +    if (y < 0) {
> +        fprintf(stderr, "%s: update y was < 0 (%d, h %d)\n",
> +                        __FUNCTION__, y, h);
> +        h += y;
> +        if (h < 0) {
> +            return;
> +        }
> +        y = 0;
> +    }
>     if (x + w > s->width) {
>         fprintf(stderr, "%s: update width too large x: %d, w: %d\n",
>                         __FUNCTION__, x, w);
> -- 
> 1.7.9
>
>
>