Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 18/24] hw/arm/smmuv3: Event queue recording helper

[Auger Eric]

Hi Peter,

On 05/14/2018 06:23 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 4 May 2018 at 18:15, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Eric Auger <address@hidden>
>>
>> Let's introduce a helper function aiming at recording an
>> event in the event queue.
> 
>> +void smmuv3_record_event(SMMUv3State *s, SMMUEventInfo *info)
>> +{
>> +    Evt evt;
>> +    MemTxResult r;
>>
>>      if (!smmuv3_eventq_enabled(s)) {
>>          return;
>>      }
>>
>> -    if (smmuv3_q_full(q)) {
>> +    EVT_SET_TYPE(&evt, info->type);
>> +    EVT_SET_SID(&evt, info->sid);
> 
> Hi Eric -- Coverity complains about use of uninitialized data
> here (CID 1391004). Evt is a struct, and there's no initializer
> where we declare it, so its fields are uninitialized. The
> The EVT_SET_TYPE and similar setters use deposit32() on fields
> in the struct, so they read the uninitialized existing values.
> In cases where we don't set all the fields in the event struct
> we'll end up leaking random uninitialized data from QEMU's
> stack into the guest.
> 
> Initializing the struct with "Evt evt = {};" ought to satisfy
> Coverity and fix the data leak.

Sure I will send a patch.

Thanks

Eric
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>