On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 21:08:22 +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
On 2012年07月30日 19:55, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> Daemon uses the following pattern when dispatching APIs with typed
> parameters:
>
> VIR_ALLOC_N(params, nparams);
> virDomain*(dom, params,&nparams, flags);
> virTypedParameterArrayClear(params, nparams);
>
> In case nparams was originally set to 0, virDomain* API would fill it
> with the number of typed parameters it can provide and we would use this
> number (rather than zero) to clear params. Because VIR_ALLOC* returns
> non-NULL pointer even if size is 0, the code would end up walking
> through random memory. If we were lucky enough and the memory contained
> 7 (VIR_TYPED_PARAM_STRING) at the right place, we would try to free a
> random pointer and crash.
>
> Let's make sure params stays NULL when nparams is 0.
> ---
> daemon/remote.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/daemon/remote.c b/daemon/remote.c
> index 80626a2..d25717c 100644
> --- a/daemon/remote.c
> +++ b/daemon/remote.c
> @@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ remoteDispatchDomainGetSchedulerParameters(virNetServerPtr
server ATTRIBUTE_UNUS
> virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", _("nparams too
large"));
> goto cleanup;
> }
> - if (VIR_ALLOC_N(params, nparams)< 0)
> + if (nparams&& VIR_ALLOC_N(params, nparams)< 0)
> goto no_memory;
>
> if (!(dom = get_nonnull_domain(priv->conn, args->dom)))
> @@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@
remoteDispatchDomainGetSchedulerParametersFlags(virNetServerPtr server ATTRIBUTE
> virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", _("nparams too
large"));
> goto cleanup;
> }
> - if (VIR_ALLOC_N(params, nparams)< 0)
> + if (nparams&& VIR_ALLOC_N(params, nparams)< 0)
Isn't nparams for these 2 APIs are guarantee positive in the APIs?
virCheckPositiveArgGoto(*nparams, error);
Yes but this function is an entry point from RPC and the daemon should not
rely on client-side checking.
Jirka