From: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] gdbstub: Fix buffer overflows in gdb_handle_packet()
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:54:08 +0530 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1510141450320.13131@wniryva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151014080902.GA4281@noname.str.redhat.com>
+-- On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Kevin Wolf wrote --+
| > Ie host gdb(1) user would need to
| > supply len/2 value to read/write 'len' bytes.
|
| That's just how the gdb protocol works. Binary data is transferred as a
| string of hex digits, with every byte being represented by two digits.
| The requested length is in bytes of binary data, so the length of the
| actually transferred data on the wire is indeed double that length.
I see, got it.
Thank you.
--
- P J P
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-14 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-13 7:38 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] gdbstub: Fix buffer overflows in gdb_handle_packet() Kevin Wolf
2015-10-14 6:53 ` P J P
2015-10-14 8:09 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-10-14 9:24 ` P J P [this message]
2015-10-29 7:30 ` Michael Tokarev
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