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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] virtio-rng: Add human-readable error message
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] virtio-rng: Add human-readable error message for negative max-bytes parameter |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:58:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
John Snow <address@hidden> writes:
> If a negative integer is used for the max_bytes parameter, QEMU currently
> calls abort() and leaves behind a core dump. This patch adds a simple
> error message to make the reason for the termination clearer.
It also avoids the abort, doesn't it?
> There is an underlying insufficiency in the parameter parsing code of QEMU
> that renders it unable to reject negative values for unsigned properties,
> thus the error message "a non-negative integer below 2^63" is the most
> user-friendly and correct message we can give until the underlying
> insufficiency is corrected.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <address@hidden>
> ---
> v3: Adjusted the error message to be more semantically meaningful, but
> while acknowledging the limitations of the current unsigned integer
> parsing routines.
>
> hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
> index 1356aca..7c5a675 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
> @@ -181,7 +181,13 @@ static void virtio_rng_device_realize(DeviceState *dev,
> Error **errp)
>
> vrng->vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 8, handle_input);
>
> - assert(vrng->conf.max_bytes <= INT64_MAX);
> + /* Workaround: Property parsing does not enforce unsigned integers,
> + * So this is a hack to reject such numbers. */
> + if (vrng->conf.max_bytes > INT64_MAX) {
> + error_set(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, "max-bytes",
> + "a non-negative integer below 2^63");
> + return;
> + }
> vrng->quota_remaining = vrng->conf.max_bytes;
>
> vrng->rate_limit_timer = timer_new_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL,
Patch looks good now.