[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] virtio-serial: Don't copy over guest buffer to host

[Amit Shah]

When the guest writes something to a host, we copied over the entire
buffer first into the host and then processed it.  Do away with that, it
could result in a malicious guest causing a DoS on the host.

Reported-by: Paul Brook <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <address@hidden>
---
 hw/virtio-serial-bus.c |   15 ++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio-serial-bus.c b/hw/virtio-serial-bus.c
index e8c2a16..6726f72 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-serial-bus.c
+++ b/hw/virtio-serial-bus.c
@@ -132,16 +132,17 @@ static void do_flush_queued_data(VirtIOSerialPort *port, 
VirtQueue *vq,
     assert(virtio_queue_ready(vq));
 
     while (!port->throttled && virtqueue_pop(vq, &elem)) {
-        uint8_t *buf;
-        size_t ret, buf_size;
+        unsigned int i;
 
-        buf_size = iov_size(elem.out_sg, elem.out_num);
-        buf = qemu_malloc(buf_size);
-        ret = iov_to_buf(elem.out_sg, elem.out_num, buf, 0, buf_size);
+        for (i = 0; i < elem.out_num; i++) {
+            size_t buf_size;
 
-        port->info->have_data(port, buf, ret);
-        qemu_free(buf);
+            buf_size = elem.out_sg[i].iov_len;
 
+            port->info->have_data(port,
+                                  elem.out_sg[i].iov_base,
+                                  buf_size);
+        }
         virtqueue_push(vq, &elem, 0);
     }
     virtio_notify(vdev, vq);
-- 
1.7.3.4