Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH for-2.7? v2 0/5] block: Use QemuOpts for runtime options

[Jeff Cody]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 02:34:52PM +0200, Max Reitz wrote:
> The SSH and NBD block drivers currently directly extract their runtime
> options from the options QDict they receive. This is bad practice and
> can lead to segmentation faults (which, however, will always be a NULL
> pointer dereference, so it should not be exploitable beyond a DoS).
> 
> This series fixes that by using QemuOpts instead (like all the other
> block drivers do).
> 
> With this series applied, there are only two instances of "qdict_get"
> left in block/, both of which appear to be safe.
> 
> 
> v2:
> - Patch 1: Fix leak of opts [Kevin]
> - Patches 1 and 2: Use the block driver name as a prefix for
>   runtime_opts [Kevin]
> 
> 
> git-backport-diff against v1:
> 
> Key:
> [----] : patches are identical
> [####] : number of functional differences between upstream/downstream patch
> [down] : patch is downstream-only
> The flags [FC] indicate (F)unctional and (C)ontextual differences, 
> respectively
> 
> 001/5:[0009] [FC] 'block/ssh: Use QemuOpts for runtime options'
> 002/5:[0006] [FC] 'block/nbd: Use QemuOpts for runtime options'
> 003/5:[----] [--] 'block/blkdebug: Store config filename'
> 004/5:[----] [--] 'block/nbd: Store runtime option values'
> 005/5:[----] [--] 'iotests: Test case for wrong runtime option types'
> 
> 
> Max Reitz (5):
>   block/ssh: Use QemuOpts for runtime options
>   block/nbd: Use QemuOpts for runtime options
>   block/blkdebug: Store config filename
>   block/nbd: Store runtime option values
>   iotests: Test case for wrong runtime option types
> 
>  block/blkdebug.c           |  17 +++--
>  block/nbd.c                | 159 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  block/ssh.c                |  80 ++++++++++++++++-------
>  tests/qemu-iotests/162     |  96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/qemu-iotests/162.out |  17 +++++
>  tests/qemu-iotests/group   |   1 +
>  6 files changed, 287 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/162
>  create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/162.out
> 
> -- 
> 2.9.2
>

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Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>