From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Christian Schoenebeck" <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>,
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"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
"Eduardo Habkost" <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
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"Daniel P . Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/28] block/qcow2-bitmap: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2()
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 23:14:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51de5796-3137-6ac3-c935-eb097fc4ca45@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210903211322.n5isnkxin6jlkxrf@redhat.com>
On 9/3/21 11:13 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 07:44:47PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Per https://discourse.gnome.org/t/port-your-module-from-g-memdup-to-g-memdup2-now/5538
>>
>> The old API took the size of the memory to duplicate as a guint,
>> whereas most memory functions take memory sizes as a gsize. This
>> made it easy to accidentally pass a gsize to g_memdup(). For large
>> values, that would lead to a silent truncation of the size from 64
>> to 32 bits, and result in a heap area being returned which is
>> significantly smaller than what the caller expects. This can likely
>> be exploited in various modules to cause a heap buffer overflow.
>>
>> Replace g_memdup() by the safer g_memdup2() wrapper.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> block/qcow2-bitmap.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/qcow2-bitmap.c b/block/qcow2-bitmap.c
>> index 8fb47315515..218a0dc712a 100644
>> --- a/block/qcow2-bitmap.c
>> +++ b/block/qcow2-bitmap.c
>> @@ -1599,7 +1599,7 @@ bool qcow2_store_persistent_dirty_bitmaps(BlockDriverState *bs,
>> name);
>> goto fail;
>> }
>> - tb = g_memdup(&bm->table, sizeof(bm->table));
>> + tb = g_memdup2(&bm->table, sizeof(bm->table));
>
> Trivially safe. It might be worth a comment in the various commit
> messages for which patches are trivially safe (because the argument
> was directly from sizeof), and which would require a larger audit of
> callers to see if we had any (unlikely) bug (such as patch 3/28).
Yes, will do.
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-03 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-03 17:44 [PATCH v3 00/28] glib: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 01/28] hw/hyperv/vmbus: Remove unused vmbus_load/save_req() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 02/28] glib-compat: Introduce g_memdup2() wrapper Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 20:37 ` Eric Blake
2021-12-16 14:11 ` Alex Bennée
2021-12-16 18:39 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-12-17 11:10 ` Alex Bennée
2021-12-17 11:41 ` Laurent Vivier
2021-12-17 12:15 ` Alex Bennée
2021-12-17 13:39 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-12-17 13:43 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-12-17 14:53 ` Alex Bennée
2021-12-17 15:01 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-12-17 10:55 ` Laurent Vivier
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 03/28] qapi: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 21:10 ` Eric Blake
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 04/28] accel/tcg: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 05/28] block/qcow2-bitmap: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 21:13 ` Eric Blake
2021-09-03 21:14 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 06/28] softmmu: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 07/28] hw/9pfs: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-04 12:25 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 08/28] hw/acpi: Avoid truncating acpi_data_len() to 32-bit Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 09/28] hw/acpi: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 10/28] hw/core/machine: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 11/28] hw/hppa/machine: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 12/28] hw/i386/multiboot: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 13/28] hw/net/eepro100: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 14/28] hw/nvram/fw_cfg: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 15/28] hw/scsi/mptsas: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 16/28] hw/ppc/spapr_pci: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-04 3:38 ` David Gibson
2021-09-03 17:44 ` [PATCH v3 17/28] hw/rdma: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 18/28] hw/vfio/pci: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:45 ` [RFC PATCH v3 19/28] hw/virtio: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-04-01 10:50 ` Eugenio Perez Martin
2021-09-03 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 20/28] net/colo: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:45 ` [RFC PATCH v3 21/28] ui/clipboard: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:45 ` [RFC PATCH v3 22/28] linux-user: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 23/28] tests/unit: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 24/28] tests/qtest: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-04 5:48 ` Thomas Huth
2021-12-17 10:56 ` Laurent Vivier
2021-09-03 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 25/28] target/arm: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 26/28] target/ppc: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-04 3:38 ` David Gibson
2021-09-03 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 27/28] contrib: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 17:45 ` [PATCH v3 28/28] checkpatch: Do not allow deprecated g_memdup() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-03 21:17 ` Eric Blake
2021-12-17 10:58 ` Laurent Vivier
2021-12-15 16:54 ` [PATCH v3 00/28] glib: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-12-17 10:59 ` Laurent Vivier
2024-05-08 21:22 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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