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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-local.c: use snprintf() inste


From: Daniel P. Berrange
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-local.c: use snprintf() instead of sprintf()
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 11:06:31 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:02:18PM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> On 02/03/2014 06:39 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
> > On 02/03/2014 06:34 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >> On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 06:00:42PM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> >>> We can not assume "'path' + 'ctx->fs_root'" must be less than MAX_PATH,
> >>> so need use snprintf() instead of sprintf().
> >>>
> >>> And also recommend to use ARRAY_SIZE instead of hard code macro for an
> >>> array size in snprintf().
> >>
> >> In the event that there is overflow this will cause the data to be
> >> truncated, potentially causing QEMU to access the wrong file on the
> >> host. Both snprintf and sprintf are really bad because of their
> >> use of fixed buffers. Better to change it to g_strdup_printf which
> >> dynamically allocates buffers.
> >>
> 
> After check the details, I guess we can not change to g_strdup_printf or
> others (e.g. v9fs_string_*).
> 
> v9fs need use "mkdir, remove ..." which have MAX_PATH limitation. So if
> the combined path is longer than MAX_PATH, before it passes to "mkdir,
> remove ...", it has to be truncated just like what rpath() has done.

I don't believe you are correct there.  Those functions should
return "errno == ENAMETOOLONG - pathname was too long". The
MAX_PATH constant is not even required to exist in POSIX, so
I would not expect the spec to mandate anything about MAX_PATH
in relation to those functions.

Copying Eric who is involved the POSIX spec group to confirm.

Even if they are limited, it is still better practice to use
dynamic allocation for this, over fixed length buffers IMHO.

Daniel
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