Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH for 2.10 14/35] vfio/ccw: fix incorrect malloc() size

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:27:30 -0300
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:

> Since sizeof(struct vfio_irq_info) < sizeof(struct vfio_irq_set) a heap overflow
> never occured. Still, let's use the correct size.
> 
> hw/vfio/ccw.c:170:16: warning: Cast a region whose size is not a multiple of the destination type size
>     irq_info = g_malloc0(sizeof(*irq_set));
>                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Reported-by: Clang Static Analyzer
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> ---
>  hw/vfio/ccw.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/vfio/ccw.c b/hw/vfio/ccw.c
> index 12d0262336..8d97b53e77 100644
> --- a/hw/vfio/ccw.c
> +++ b/hw/vfio/ccw.c
> @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static void vfio_ccw_register_io_notifier(VFIOCCWDevice *vcdev, Error **errp)
>          return;
>      }
>  
> -    argsz = sizeof(*irq_set);
> +    argsz = sizeof(*irq_info);
>      irq_info = g_malloc0(argsz);
>      irq_info->index = VFIO_CCW_IO_IRQ_INDEX;
>      irq_info->argsz = argsz;

Thanks for the patch, but I already have "vfio/ccw: allocate irq info
with the right size" queued in my s390-next branch (for which I plan to
send a pull req today).