[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] block/ssh: Avoid segfault if inet_connect doesn't set errno.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On some (but not all) systems:

  $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 overlay -b ssh://xen/
  Segmentation fault

It turns out this happens when inet_connect returns -1 in the
following code, but errno == 0.

  s->sock = inet_connect(s->hostport, errp);
  if (s->sock < 0) {
      ret = -errno;
      goto err;
  }

In the test case above, no host called "xen" exists, so getaddrinfo fails.

On Fedora 22, getaddrinfo happens to set errno = ENOENT (although it
is *not* documented to do that), so it doesn't segfault.

On RHEL 7, errno is not set by the failing getaddrinfo, so ret =
-errno = 0, so the caller doesn't know there was an error and
continues with a half-initialized BDRVSSHState struct, and everything
goes south from there, eventually resulting in a segfault.

Fix this by setting ret to -EIO (same as block/nbd.c and
block/sheepdog.c).  The real error is saved in the Error** errp
struct, so it is printed correctly:

  $ ./qemu-img create -f qcow2 overlay -b ssh://xen/
  qemu-img: overlay: address resolution failed for xen:22: No address 
associated with hostname

Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <address@hidden>
Reported-by: Jun Li
BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147343
---
 block/ssh.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/ssh.c b/block/ssh.c
index aebb18c..8d06739 100644
--- a/block/ssh.c
+++ b/block/ssh.c
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ static int connect_to_ssh(BDRVSSHState *s, QDict *options,
     /* Open the socket and connect. */
     s->sock = inet_connect(s->hostport, errp);
     if (s->sock < 0) {
-        ret = -errno;
+        ret = -EIO;
         goto err;
     }
 
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