[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: fix use-after-free in the error path of qdev_init_nofail

[Anthony Liguori]

>From Markus:

Before:

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -display none -drive if=ide
    qemu-system-x86_64: Device needs media, but drive is empty
    qemu-system-x86_64: Initialization of device ide-hd failed
    [Exit 1 ]

After:

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -display none -drive if=ide
    qemu-system-x86_64: Device needs media, but drive is empty
    Segmentation fault (core dumped)
    [Exit 139 (SIGSEGV)]

This error always existed as qdev_init() frees the object.  But QOM
goes a bit further and purposefully sets the class pointer to NULL to
help find use-after-free.  It worked :-)

Cc: Andreas Faerber <address@hidden>
Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
---
 hw/qdev.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/qdev.c b/hw/qdev.c
index a6c4c02..af54467 100644
--- a/hw/qdev.c
+++ b/hw/qdev.c
@@ -258,9 +258,10 @@ int qdev_simple_unplug_cb(DeviceState *dev)
    way is somewhat unclean, and best avoided.  */
 void qdev_init_nofail(DeviceState *dev)
 {
+    const char *typename = object_get_typename(OBJECT(dev));
+
     if (qdev_init(dev) < 0) {
-        error_report("Initialization of device %s failed",
-                     object_get_typename(OBJECT(dev)));
+        error_report("Initialization of device %s failed", typename);
         exit(1);
     }
 }
-- 
1.7.5.4