Re: [PATCH 05/10] vhost-backend: avoid overflow on memslots_limit

[Roman Kagan]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:56:17AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 10:46:46AM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 06:59:43PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > > On 11/11/21 16:33, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > > > Fix the (hypothetical) potential problem when the value parsed out of
> > > > the vhost module parameter in sysfs overflows the return value from
> > > > vhost_kernel_memslots_limit.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rvkagan@yandex-team.ru>
> > > > ---
> > > >  hw/virtio/vhost-backend.c | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-backend.c b/hw/virtio/vhost-backend.c
> > > > index b65f8f7e97..44f7dbb243 100644
> > > > --- a/hw/virtio/vhost-backend.c
> > > > +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-backend.c
> > > > @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static int vhost_kernel_memslots_limit(struct 
> > > > vhost_dev *dev)
> > > >      if 
> > > > (g_file_get_contents("/sys/module/vhost/parameters/max_mem_regions",
> > > >                              &s, NULL, NULL)) {
> > > >          uint64_t val = g_ascii_strtoull(s, NULL, 10);
> > > 
> > > Would using qemu_strtou64() simplify this?
> > 
> > I'm afraid not.  None of the existing strtoXX converting functions has
> > the desired output range (0 < retval < INT_MAX), so the following
> > condition will remain necessary anyway; then it doesn't seem to matter
> > which particular parser is used to extract the value which is in the
> > range, so I left the one that was already there to reduce churn.
> 
> If  qemu_strtou64() can't handle all values in (0 < retval < INT_MAX)
> isn't that a bug in qemu_strtou64 ?

I must have been unclear.  It sure can handle all values in this range;
the point is that the range check after it would still be needed, so
switching from g_ascii_strtoull to qemu_strtoXX saves nothing, therefore
I left it as it was.

Thanks,
Roman.