[libvirt] [PATCH] keepalive: Guard against integer overflow

[Eric Blake]

On 02/20/2013 02:02 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/20/2013 01:51 PM, John Ferlan wrote:
>> Don't allow interval to be > MAX_INT/1000 in virKeepAliveStart()
>>
>> Guard against possible overflow in virKeepAliveTimeout() by setting the 
>> timeout to be MAX_INT/1000 since the math following will multiply it by 1000.
>>
>> This is a follow-up of sorts from a Coverity change made last month:
>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-January/msg02267.html
>>
>> where it was noted that the timeout value math needed overflow protection.
>>
>> ---
>>  src/rpc/virkeepalive.c | 9 +++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> ACK.

I hit send prematurely.  What you have is fine, but it could be improved
slightly:


>> +        /* Guard against overflow */
>> +        if (interval > INT_MAX / 1000) {
>> +            virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s",
>> +                           _("keepalive interval too large"));
>> +            goto cleanup;

Instead of "%s", _("too large"), it would be better to have _("keepalive
interval %d too large), interval

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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