Re: [PATCH v3] qom: code hardening - have bound checking while looping with integer value

[Ani Sinha]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:22 PM Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 03:03:25PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> > Object property insertion code iterates over an integer to get an unused
> > index that can be used as an unique name for an object property. This loop
> > increments the integer value indefinitely. Although very unlikely, this can
> > still cause an integer overflow.
> > In this change, we fix the above code by checking against INT16_MAX and 
> > making
> > sure that the interger index does not overflow beyond that value. If no
> > available index is found, the code would cause an assertion failure. This
> > assertion failure is necessary because the callers of the function do not 
> > check
> > the return value for NULL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>
> > Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
>
> Queued on machine-next, thanks!  My apologies for the delay.

Any idea when this will be pulled?