[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Zero out the host's `msg_control` buffer

[Jonas Schievink]

(Apparently I messed up my git config for the last email so it didn't
send the correct name - please bear with me, this is my first time
submitting a patch to a mailing list. I've also added a link to the
upstream bug in the commit description.)

If this is not done, qemu would drop any control message after the first
one.

This is because glibc's `CMSG_NXTHDR` macro accesses the uninitialized
cmsghdr's length field in order to find out if the message fits into the
`msg_control` buffer, wrongly assuming that it doesn't because the
length field contains garbage. Accessing the length field is fine for
completed messages we receive from the kernel, but is - as far as I know
- not needed since the kernel won't return such an invalid cmsghdr in
the first place.

This is tracked as this glibc bug:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13500

It's probably also a good idea to bail with an error if `CMSG_NXTHDR`
returns NULL but `TARGET_CMSG_NXTHDR` doesn't (ie. we still expect
cmsgs).
---
 linux-user/syscall.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c
index e4b1b7d7da..77ce173b27 100644
--- a/linux-user/syscall.c
+++ b/linux-user/syscall.c
@@ -3845,6 +3845,8 @@ static abi_long do_sendrecvmsg_locked(int fd, struct 
target_msghdr *msgp,
     msg.msg_control = alloca(msg.msg_controllen);
     msg.msg_flags = tswap32(msgp->msg_flags);
 
+    memset(msg.msg_control, 0, msg.msg_controllen);
+
     count = tswapal(msgp->msg_iovlen);
     target_vec = tswapal(msgp->msg_iov);
 
-- 
2.18.0