Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block/ssh: fix possible segmentation fault when .desc is not null-terminated

[Eric Blake]

On 01/05/2018 08:44 AM, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo wrote:
> This patch prevents a possible segmentation fault when .desc members are 
> checked
> against NULL.
> 
> The ssh_runtime_opts was added by commit
> 8a6a80896d6af03b8ee0c17cdf37219eca2588a7 ("block/ssh: Use QemuOpts for runtime
> options").
> 
> This fix was inspired by
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-01/msg00883.html.
> 
> Fixes: 8a6a80896d6af03b8ee0c17cdf37219eca2588a7 ("block/ssh: Use QemuOpts for 
> runtime options")

present since 2.7.0, so we've gotten lucky that no one has actually
encountered a crash (but I didn't try hard to see if one was possible)

> Cc: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/ssh.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

CC: address@hidden
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

> 
> diff --git a/block/ssh.c b/block/ssh.c
> index b049a16eb9..8890a0c4ba 100644
> --- a/block/ssh.c
> +++ b/block/ssh.c
> @@ -556,6 +556,7 @@ static QemuOptsList ssh_runtime_opts = {
>              .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
>              .help = "Defines how and what to check the host key against",
>          },
> +        { /* end of list */ }
>      },
>  };
>  
> 

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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