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From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests/qtest/netdev-socket: Avoid variable-length array in inet_get_free_port_multiple()
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 06:52:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f49f0020-c860-96be-0b18-dbcdcfe7a465@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230824164535.2652070-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>

On 24/8/23 18:45, Peter Maydell wrote:
> We use a variable-length array in inet_get_free_port_multiple().
> This is only test code called at the start of a test, so switch to a
> heap allocation instead.
> 
> The codebase has very few VLAs, and if we can get rid of them all we
> can make the compiler error on new additions.  This is a defensive
> measure against security bugs where an on-stack dynamic allocation
> isn't correctly size-checked (e.g.  CVE-2021-3527).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
>   tests/qtest/netdev-socket.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-25  4:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-24 16:45 [PATCH] tests/qtest/netdev-socket: Avoid variable-length array in inet_get_free_port_multiple() Peter Maydell
2023-08-24 17:03 ` Thomas Huth
2023-08-25  4:52 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2023-08-25  7:02 ` Laurent Vivier

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