From: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: raphning@amazon.co.uk, iwj@xenproject.org,
Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.15 3/5] tools/xenstored: control: Store the save filename in lu_dump_state
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:04:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <022c2ec1-3ac8-6e06-1f06-c6a548754d94@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210225174131.10115-4-julien@xen.org>
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On 25.02.21 18:41, Julien Grall wrote:
> From: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
>
> The function lu_close_dump_state() will use talloc_asprintf() without
> checking whether the allocation succeeded. In the unlikely case we are
> out of memory, we would dereference a NULL pointer.
>
> As we already computed the filename in lu_get_dump_state(), we can store
> the name in the lu_dump_state. This is avoiding to deal with memory file
> in the close path and also reduce the risk to use the different
> filename.
>
> This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
> Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.
>
> Fixes: c0dc6a3e7c41 ("tools/xenstore: read internal state when doing live upgrade")
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Juergen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-26 7:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-25 17:41 [PATCH for-4.15 0/5] xenstore: Address coverity issues in the LiveUpdate code Julien Grall
2021-02-25 17:41 ` [PATCH for-4.15 1/5] tools/xenstored: Avoid unnecessary talloc_strdup() in do_control_lu() Julien Grall
2021-02-26 7:00 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-02-25 17:41 ` [PATCH for-4.15 2/5] tools/xenstored: Avoid unnecessary talloc_strdup() in do_lu_start() Julien Grall
2021-02-26 7:01 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-02-25 17:41 ` [PATCH for-4.15 3/5] tools/xenstored: control: Store the save filename in lu_dump_state Julien Grall
2021-02-26 7:04 ` Jürgen Groß [this message]
2021-02-25 17:41 ` [PATCH for-4.15 4/5] tools/xenstore-control: Don't leak buf in live_update_start() Julien Grall
2021-02-26 7:06 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-02-25 17:41 ` [PATCH for-4.15 5/5] tools/xenstored: Silence coverity when using xs_state_* structures Julien Grall
2021-02-25 17:47 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-02-25 17:53 ` Julien Grall
2021-02-26 7:10 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-02-26 8:57 ` Julien Grall
2021-02-26 9:15 ` Jürgen Groß
2021-02-25 17:54 ` [PATCH for-4.15 0/5] xenstore: Address coverity issues in the LiveUpdate code Ian Jackson
2021-02-25 17:57 ` Julien Grall
2021-02-25 18:01 ` Ian Jackson
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