Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: Use correct types in load_symbols()

[Laurent Vivier]

Le 05/02/2017 à 00:05, Peter Maydell a écrit :
> Coverity doesn't like the code in load_symbols() which assumes
> it can use 'int' for a variable that might hold an offset into
> the guest ELF file, because in a 64-bit guest that could
> overflow. Guest binaries with 2GB sections aren't very likely
> and this isn't a security issue because we fully trust the
> guest linux-user binary anyway, but we might as well use the
> right types, which will placate Coverity. Use uint64_t to
> hold section sizes, and bail out if the symbol table is too
> large rather than just overflowing an int.
> 
> (Coverity issue CID1005776)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>

> ---
>  linux-user/elfload.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/linux-user/elfload.c b/linux-user/elfload.c
> index c66cbbe..f4c7b0c 100644
> --- a/linux-user/elfload.c
> +++ b/linux-user/elfload.c
> @@ -2263,6 +2263,7 @@ static int symcmp(const void *s0, const void *s1)
>  static void load_symbols(struct elfhdr *hdr, int fd, abi_ulong load_bias)
>  {
>      int i, shnum, nsyms, sym_idx = 0, str_idx = 0;
> +    uint64_t segsz;
>      struct elf_shdr *shdr;
>      char *strings = NULL;
>      struct syminfo *s = NULL;
> @@ -2294,19 +2295,26 @@ static void load_symbols(struct elfhdr *hdr, int fd, 
> abi_ulong load_bias)
>          goto give_up;
>      }
>  
> -    i = shdr[str_idx].sh_size;
> -    s->disas_strtab = strings = g_try_malloc(i);
> -    if (!strings || pread(fd, strings, i, shdr[str_idx].sh_offset) != i) {
> +    segsz = shdr[str_idx].sh_size;
> +    s->disas_strtab = strings = g_try_malloc(segsz);
> +    if (!strings ||
> +        pread(fd, strings, segsz, shdr[str_idx].sh_offset) != segsz) {
>          goto give_up;
>      }
>  
> -    i = shdr[sym_idx].sh_size;
> -    syms = g_try_malloc(i);
> -    if (!syms || pread(fd, syms, i, shdr[sym_idx].sh_offset) != i) {
> +    segsz = shdr[sym_idx].sh_size;
> +    syms = g_try_malloc(segsz);
> +    if (!syms || pread(fd, syms, segsz, shdr[sym_idx].sh_offset) != segsz) {
>          goto give_up;
>      }
>  
> -    nsyms = i / sizeof(struct elf_sym);
> +    if (segsz / sizeof(struct elf_sym) > INT_MAX) {
> +        /* Implausibly large symbol table: give up rather than ploughing
> +         * on with the number of symbols calculation overflowing
> +         */
> +        goto give_up;
> +    }
> +    nsyms = segsz / sizeof(struct elf_sym);
>      for (i = 0; i < nsyms; ) {
>          bswap_sym(syms + i);
>          /* Throw away entries which we do not need.  */
>