Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/18] nbd/client: fix drop_sync

[Eric Blake]

On 02/06/2017 05:17 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/03/2017 09:47 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
>> Comparison symbol is misused. It may lead to memory corruption.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  nbd/client.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Adding qemu-stable; this needs to be back-ported, and can be applied
> independently from your series.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

For the record, this is now assigned CVE-2017-2630.  My apologies for
introducing the bug in the first place (commit 7d3123e).  The maintainer
may want to touch up the commit message to give those further details,
since it is security-related.

> 
>>
>> diff --git a/nbd/client.c b/nbd/client.c
>> index 6caf6bda6d..351731bc63 100644
>> --- a/nbd/client.c
>> +++ b/nbd/client.c
>> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static ssize_t drop_sync(QIOChannel *ioc, size_t size)
>>      char small[1024];
>>      char *buffer;
>>  
>> -    buffer = sizeof(small) < size ? small : g_malloc(MIN(65536, size));
>> +    buffer = sizeof(small) > size ? small : g_malloc(MIN(65536, size));
>>      while (size > 0) {
>>          ssize_t count = read_sync(ioc, buffer, MIN(65536, size));
>>  
>>
> 

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