[Libguestfs] [PATCH v2 1/2] lib: change how hbin sections are read.

[Dawid Zamirski]

On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 21:14 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 02:28:41PM -0500, Dawid Zamirski wrote:
> > Correct, however there's also no guarantee that seeking by 4k in
> > "garbage" data would not land you in registry data that happens to
> > evaluate to "hbin" as well. That's why I put "hbin" offset
> > validation
> > check couple of lines below to make sure that the "hbin" we found
> > by
> > searching is a proper one. The offset check I'm referring to is:
> > 
> > /* get "stated" hbin offset from header */
> > size_t page_offset = le32to(page->offset_first) + 0x1000;
> > 
> > /* if that does not match our current file offset,
> >    then exit with error */
> > if (page_offset != off) { 
> >   SET_ERRNO...
> > }
> 
> Still, what kind of corruption would move a genuine hbin to a
> non-page-sized offset in the file?  It seems unlikely to me ...
> 
> Rich.
> 

None that I know of :-) However I don't see any other simple way to
silence that GCC7 warning and it seems harmless that way to me (besides
the fact that the loop will have to make more iterations)