Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 7/7] util: Add safety net of checks to ensure valid object

The virObject logic "assumes" that whatever is passed to its API's would be some sort of virObjectPtr; however, if it is not then some really bad things can happen. So far there's been only virObject{Ref|Unref}, virObject{Lock|Unlock}, and virObjectIsClass and the virObject and virObjectLockable class consumers have been well behaved and code well tested. Soon there will be more consumers and one such consumer tripped over this during testing by passing a virHashTablePtr to virObjectIsClass which ends up calling virClassIsDerivedFrom using "obj->klass", which wasn't really a klass object causing one of those bad things to happen. To avoid the future possibility that a non virObject class memory was passed to some virObject* API, this patch adds two new checks - one to validate that the object has the 0xCAFExxxx value in obj->->u.s.magic and the other to ensure obj->u.s.magic doesn't "wrap" some day to 0xCAFF0000 if we ever get that many object classes. The check is also moved before the name VIR_STRDUP to avoid the extra VIR_FREE that would be required on the failure path.

It is still left up to the caller to handle the failed API calls just as it would be if it passed a NULL opaque pointer anyobj. Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/virobject.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virobject.c b/src/util/virobject.c index 2cf4743..dd4c39a 100644 --- a/src/util/virobject.c +++ b/src/util/virobject.c @@ -47,14 +47,21 @@ struct _virClass { virObjectDisposeCallback dispose; }; +#define VIR_OBJECT_NOTVALID(obj) (!obj || ((obj->u.s.magic & 0xCAFE0000) != 0xCAFE0000))

+ #define VIR_OBJECT_USAGE_PRINT_WARNING(anyobj, objclass) \ do { \ virObjectPtr obj = anyobj; \ - if (!obj) \ - VIR_WARN("Object cannot be NULL"); \ - else \ + if (VIR_OBJECT_NOTVALID(obj)) { \ + if (!obj) \ + VIR_WARN("Object cannot be NULL"); \ + else \ + VIR_WARN("Object %p has a bad magic number %X", \ + obj, obj->u.s.magic); \ + } else { \ VIR_WARN("Object %p (%s) is not a %s instance", \ anyobj, obj->klass->name, #objclass); \ + } \ } while (0) @@ -177,9 +184,14 @@ virClassNew(virClassPtr parent, goto error; klass->parent = parent; + klass->magic = virAtomicIntInc(&magicCounter); + if (klass->magic > 0xCAFEFFFF) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", + _("too many object classes defined")); + goto error; + }