Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] elf-ops.h: fix int overflow in load_elf()

[Alex Bennée]

Stefano Garzarella <address@hidden> writes:

> This patch fixes a possible integer overflow when we calculate
> the total size of ELF segments loaded.
>
> Reported-by: Coverity (CID 1405299)
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <address@hidden>
> ---
> Now we are limited to INT_MAX, should load_elf() returns ssize_t
> to support bigger ELFs?
> ---
>  include/hw/elf_ops.h | 6 ++++++
>  hw/core/loader.c     | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/hw/elf_ops.h b/include/hw/elf_ops.h
> index 1496d7e753..46dd3bf413 100644
> --- a/include/hw/elf_ops.h
> +++ b/include/hw/elf_ops.h
> @@ -485,6 +485,12 @@ static int glue(load_elf, SZ)(const char *name, int fd,
>                  }
>              }
>
> +            if (mem_size > INT_MAX - total_size) {
> +                error_report("ELF total segments size is too big to load "
> +                             "max is %d)", INT_MAX);
> +                goto fail;
> +            }
> +

Seem sensible enough (although gah, I hate these glue bits). Would the
large amount of goto fail logic be something that could be cleaned up
with the automatic cleanup functions we recently mentioned in
CODING_STYLE.rst?

Anyway:

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>


>              /* address_offset is hack for kernel images that are
>                 linked at the wrong physical address.  */
>              if (translate_fn) {
> diff --git a/hw/core/loader.c b/hw/core/loader.c
> index 32f7cc7c33..feda52fa88 100644
> --- a/hw/core/loader.c
> +++ b/hw/core/loader.c
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
>
>  #include "qemu/osdep.h"
>  #include "qemu-common.h"
> +#include "qemu/error-report.h"
>  #include "qapi/error.h"
>  #include "hw/hw.h"
>  #include "disas/disas.h"


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Alex Bennée