Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-users/syscall: make do_ioctl_rt safer

[Laurent Vivier]

On 08/11/2018 11:59, Alex Bennée wrote:
> host_rt_dev_ptr is set while looping through a control structure. The
> compiler can not know that all structures passed to do_ioctl_rt will
> trigger the if clause so rightly complains with an --enable-sanitizers
> build. To keep the compiler happy we default the host_rt_dev_ptr and
> check it has been set before attempting to follow it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> ---
>  linux-user/syscall.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
> index 810a58b704..3a942f1f4a 100644
> --- a/linux-user/syscall.c
> +++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
> @@ -4669,7 +4669,7 @@ static abi_long do_ioctl_rt(const IOCTLEntry *ie, 
> uint8_t *buf_temp,
>      int target_size;
>      void *argptr;
>      abi_ulong *target_rt_dev_ptr;
> -    unsigned long *host_rt_dev_ptr;
> +    unsigned long *host_rt_dev_ptr = NULL;
>      abi_long ret;
>      int i;
>  
> @@ -4715,7 +4715,7 @@ static abi_long do_ioctl_rt(const IOCTLEntry *ie, 
> uint8_t *buf_temp,
>      unlock_user(argptr, arg, 0);
>  
>      ret = get_errno(safe_ioctl(fd, ie->host_cmd, buf_temp));
> -    if (*host_rt_dev_ptr != 0) {
> +    if (host_rt_dev_ptr && *host_rt_dev_ptr != 0) {

As host_rt_dev_ptr should be set in every case, I think an
"assert(host_rt_dev_ptr != NULL)" would be more meaningful.

Thanks,
Laurent