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Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v3] loader: Check access size when calling rom_p


From: Cornelia Huck
Subject: Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v3] loader: Check access size when calling rom_ptr() to avoid crashes
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:40:01 +0200

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:49:05 +0200
Thomas Huth <address@hidden> 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>

Grmpf, this conflicts with "s390/ipl: fix ipl with -no-reboot" in
s390-next... do you want to rebase it?

> ---
>  v3: Fix the check in find_rom()
> 
>  hw/core/loader.c     | 10 +++++-----
>  hw/mips/mips_malta.c |  6 ++++--
>  hw/s390x/ipl.c       | 13 ++++++++++---
>  hw/sparc/sun4m.c     |  4 ++--
>  hw/sparc64/sun4u.c   |  4 ++--
>  include/hw/loader.h  |  2 +-
>  target/arm/cpu.c     |  2 +-
>  7 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)



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