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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 59/60] json: Improve safety of qobject_from_jsonf
From: |
Markus Armbruster |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 59/60] json: Improve safety of qobject_from_jsonf_nofail() & friends |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 17:05:58 +0200 |
The JSON parser optionally supports interpolation. This is used to
build QObjects by parsing string templates. The templates are C
literals, so parse errors (such as invalid interpolation
specifications) are actually programming errors. Consequently, the
functions providing parsing with interpolation
(qobject_from_jsonf_nofail(), qobject_from_vjsonf_nofail(),
qdict_from_jsonf_nofail(), qdict_from_vjsonf_nofail()) pass
&error_abort to the parser.
However, there's another, more dangerous kind of programming error:
since we use va_arg() to get the value to interpolate, behavior is
undefined when the variable argument isn't consistent with the
interpolation specification.
The same problem exists with printf()-like functions, and the solution
is to have the compiler check consistency. This is what
GCC_FMT_ATTR() is about.
To enable this type checking for interpolation as well, we carefully
chose our interpolation specifications to match printf conversion
specifications, and decorate functions parsing templates with
GCC_FMT_ATTR().
Note that this only protects against undefined behavior due to type
errors. It can't protect against use of invalid interpolation
specifications that happen to be valid printf conversion
specifications.
However, there's still a gaping hole in the type checking: GCC
recognizes '%' as start of printf conversion specification anywhere in
the template, but the parser recognizes it only outside JSON strings.
For instance, if someone were to pass a "{ '%s': %d }" template, GCC
would require a char * and an int argument, but the parser would
va_arg() only an int argument, resulting in undefined behavior.
Avoid undefined behavior by catching the programming error at run
time: have the parser recognize and reject '%' in JSON strings.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
---
qobject/json-parser.c | 12 ++++++++++--
tests/check-qjson.c | 17 +++++++----------
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/qobject/json-parser.c b/qobject/json-parser.c
index ad505bdad8..273e354ccd 100644
--- a/qobject/json-parser.c
+++ b/qobject/json-parser.c
@@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ static QString *parse_string(JSONParserContext *ctxt,
JSONToken *token)
while (*ptr != quote) {
assert(*ptr);
- if (*ptr == '\\') {
+ switch (*ptr) {
+ case '\\':
beg = ptr++;
switch (*ptr++) {
case '"':
@@ -205,7 +206,14 @@ static QString *parse_string(JSONParserContext *ctxt,
JSONToken *token)
parse_error(ctxt, token, "invalid escape sequence in string");
goto out;
}
- } else {
+ break;
+ case '%':
+ if (ctxt->ap) {
+ parse_error(ctxt, token, "can't interpolate into string");
+ goto out;
+ }
+ /* fall through */
+ default:
cp = mod_utf8_codepoint(ptr, 6, &end);
if (cp < 0) {
parse_error(ctxt, token, "invalid UTF-8 sequence in string");
diff --git a/tests/check-qjson.c b/tests/check-qjson.c
index 344f9f8ed9..89fd6ad6f6 100644
--- a/tests/check-qjson.c
+++ b/tests/check-qjson.c
@@ -1037,16 +1037,13 @@ static void interpolation_unknown(void)
static void interpolation_string(void)
{
- QLitObject decoded = QLIT_QLIST(((QLitObject[]){
- QLIT_QSTR("%s"),
- QLIT_QSTR("eins"),
- {}}));
- QObject *qobj;
-
- /* Dangerous misfeature: % is silently ignored in strings */
- qobj = qobject_from_jsonf_nofail("['%s', %s]", "eins", "zwei");
- g_assert(qlit_equal_qobject(&decoded, qobj));
- qobject_unref(qobj);
+ if (g_test_subprocess()) {
+ qobject_from_jsonf_nofail("['%s', %s]", "eins", "zwei");
+ }
+ g_test_trap_subprocess(NULL, 0, 0);
+ g_test_trap_assert_failed();
+ g_test_trap_assert_stderr("*Unexpected error*"
+ "can't interpolate into string*");
}
static void simple_dict(void)
--
2.17.1
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 58/60] json: Keep interpolation state in JSONParserContext, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 58/60] json: Keep interpolation state in JSONParserContext, Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 60/60] json: Support %% in JSON strings when interpolating, Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 26/60] json: Simplify parse_string(), Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 33/60] json: Redesign the callback to consume JSON values, Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/60] check-qjson: Cover UTF-8 in single quoted strings, Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 50/60] json: Unbox tokens queue in JSONMessageParser, Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 32/60] json: Have lexer call streamer directly, Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 53/60] json: Make JSONToken opaque outside json-parser.c, Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 59/60] json: Improve safety of qobject_from_jsonf_nofail() & friends,
Markus Armbruster <=
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 46/60] json: Assert json_parser_parse() consumes all tokens on success, Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 45/60] json: Fix streamer not to ignore trailing unterminated structures, Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 41/60] json: Nicer recovery from invalid leading zero, Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 40/60] json: Replace %I64d, %I64u by %PRId64, %PRIu64, Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 49/60] json: Streamline json_message_process_token(), Markus Armbruster, 2018/08/17