Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper: Fix possible overflow

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:00:16AM +0800, Shannon Zhao wrote:
> It's detected by coverity. As max of sockaddr_un.sun_path is
> sizeof(helper.sun_path), should check the length of source
> and use strncpy instead of strcpy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <address@hidden>
> ---
>     v1->v2: Still use strcpy [Paolo]
> ---
>  fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c b/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
> index bf2e5f3..13fe032 100644
> --- a/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
> +++ b/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
> @@ -738,6 +738,7 @@ static int proxy_socket(const char *path, uid_t uid, 
> gid_t gid)
>          return -1;
>      }
>  
> +    g_assert(strlen(path) < sizeof(proxy.sun_path));
>      sock = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

path is user input.  While the assertion check silences Coverity, it is
not suitable for input validation.  Users expect a graceful exit with an
error message, not an assertion failure if the given path is too long.

I will send a patch.

Stefan

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