Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] loader: Check access size when calling rom_ptr() to avoid crashes

[Thomas Huth]

On 15.06.2018 11:49, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The rom_ptr() function allows direct access to the ROM blobs that we
> load during startup. However, there are currently no checks for the
> size of the accesses, so it's currently possible to crash QEMU for
> example with:
> 
> $ echo "Insane in the mainframe" > /tmp/test.txt
> $ s390x-softmmu/qemu-system-s390x -kernel /tmp/test.txt -append xyz
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> $ s390x-softmmu/qemu-system-s390x -kernel /tmp/test.txt -initrd /tmp/test.txt
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> $ echo -n HdrS > /tmp/hdr.txt
> $ sparc64-softmmu/qemu-system-sparc64 -kernel /tmp/hdr.txt -initrd 
> /tmp/hdr.txt
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> We need a possibility to check the size of the ROM area that we want
> to access, thus let's add a size parameter to the rom_ptr() function
> to avoid these problems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>

Ping!

Could anybody please pick this patch up? Qemu-trivial seems to be pretty
dormant these days (?), so maybe Paolo via misc? Or either the s390x or
Sparc tree, since it fixes a crash on these machines?

 Thanks,
  Thomas