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From: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, jcody@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [trivial for-2.6] util/id: fully allocate names table
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:17:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5655D122.8010601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871tbeijay.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>



On 11/25/2015 03:18 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> Trivial: this array should be allocated to have ID_MAX entries always.
>> Otherwise if someone were to forget to expand this table, the assertion
>> in the id generator won't actually trigger; it will read junk data.
> 
> You mean this one:
> 
>     assert(id < ID_MAX);
> 

Well, sort of. I meant 'assert(id_subsys_str[id])' itself. If you forget
to expand the list (It happened to a friend of mine) this assert will
pass because it reads garbage.

If you just always expand the full table, though, it will catch you
(Err, my friend) being a dummy a little more nicely.

My thought is we need both the range and presence checks.
I'll v2 it, thanks.

--js

> The assertion is crap, because it fails to protect array access
> id_subsys_str[id].  Here's one that does:
> 
>     assert(0 <= id && id < ARRAY_SIZE(id_subsys_str));
> 
>> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  util/id.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/util/id.c b/util/id.c
>> index bcc64d8..b7ca4d2 100644
>> --- a/util/id.c
>> +++ b/util/id.c
>> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ bool id_wellformed(const char *id)
>>  
>>  #define ID_SPECIAL_CHAR '#'
>>  
>> -static const char *const id_subsys_str[] = {
>> +static const char *const id_subsys_str[ID_MAX] = {
>>      [ID_QDEV]  = "qdev",
>>      [ID_BLOCK] = "block",
>>  };


      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-25 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-24 23:27 [Qemu-trivial] [trivial for-2.6] util/id: fully allocate names table John Snow
2015-11-25  8:18 ` [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2015-11-25  9:41   ` Kevin Wolf
2015-11-25 10:27     ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-25 15:17   ` John Snow [this message]

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