[libvirt] [v0.9.12-maint v2 05/12] qemu: Fix off-by-one error while unescaping monitor strings

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Thu Sep 12 08:19:02 UTC 2013


From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>

While unescaping the commands the commands passed through to the monitor
function qemuMonitorUnescapeArg() initialized lenght of the input string
to strlen()+1 which is fine for alloc but not for iteration of the
string.

This patch fixes the off-by-one error and drops the pointless check for
a single trailing slash that is automaticaly handled by the default
branch of switch.

(cherry picked from commit 0f4660c8787cc41fe67f869984c0ae11d680037e)
---
 src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c
index 0d4319d..68ecdb9 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c
@@ -157,20 +157,15 @@ char *qemuMonitorUnescapeArg(const char *in)
 {
     int i, j;
     char *out;
-    int len = strlen(in) + 1;
+    int len = strlen(in);
     char next;
 
-    if (VIR_ALLOC_N(out, len) < 0)
+    if (VIR_ALLOC_N(out, len + 1) < 0)
         return NULL;
 
     for (i = j = 0; i < len; ++i) {
         next = in[i];
         if (in[i] == '\\') {
-            if (len < i + 1) {
-                /* trailing backslash shouldn't be possible */
-                VIR_FREE(out);
-                return NULL;
-            }
             ++i;
             switch(in[i]) {
             case 'r':
@@ -184,7 +179,7 @@ char *qemuMonitorUnescapeArg(const char *in)
                 next = in[i];
                 break;
             default:
-                /* invalid input */
+                /* invalid input (including trailing '\' at end of in) */
                 VIR_FREE(out);
                 return NULL;
             }
-- 
1.8.4.rc3




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