Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/11] net: Real fix for check_params users

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 12:34 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> OK, last try: ea053add70 broke -net socket, ffad4116b9 tried to fix it
> but broke error reporting of invalid parameters. So this patch widely
> reverts ffad4116b9 again and intead fixes those callers of check_params
> that originally suffered from overwritten buffers by using separate
> ones.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>

Okay, I think we should revert Kevin's fix from master and replace it
with this one.

> @@ -1944,12 +1944,12 @@ int net_client_init(const char *device, const char *p)
>  #elif defined (_AIX)
>  #else
>      if (!strcmp(device, "tap")) {
> -        char ifname[64];
> +        char ifname[64], chkbuf[64];
>          char setup_script[1024], down_script[1024];
>          int fd;
>          vlan->nb_host_devs++;
>          if (get_param_value(buf, sizeof(buf), "fd", p) > 0) {
> -            if (check_params(fd_params, p) < 0) {
> +            if (check_params(chkbuf, sizeof(chkbuf), fd_params, p) < 0) {
>                  fprintf(stderr, "qemu: invalid parameter '%s' in '%s'\n",
>                          buf, p);

Should use chkbuf in the fprintf.

Following up with a patch series.

Cheers,
Mark.