[PATCH v2] virdomainjob: virDomainObjInitJob: Avoid borrowing memory from 'virDomainXMLOption'

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Tue Sep 20 09:04:39 UTC 2022


The 'cb' and 'jobDataPrivateCb' pointers are stored in the job object
but made point to the memory owned by the virDomainXMLOption struct in
the callers.

Since the 'virdomainjob' module isn't in control the lifetime of the
virDomainXMLOption, which in some cases is freed before the domain job
data, freed memory would be dereferenced in some cases.

Copy the structs from virDomainXMLOption to ensure the lifetime. This is
possible since the callback functions are immutable.

Fixes: 84e9fd068ccad6e19e037cd6680df437617e2de5
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
---

v2:
    - copy both pointers
    - don't bother with creating copy functions, use g_memdup

 src/conf/virdomainjob.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/conf/virdomainjob.c b/src/conf/virdomainjob.c
index 7915faa125..aca801af38 100644
--- a/src/conf/virdomainjob.c
+++ b/src/conf/virdomainjob.c
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ virDomainObjInitJob(virDomainJobObj *job,
                     virDomainJobDataPrivateDataCallbacks *jobDataPrivateCb)
 {
     memset(job, 0, sizeof(*job));
-    job->cb = cb;
-    job->jobDataPrivateCb = jobDataPrivateCb;
+    job->cb = g_memdup(cb, sizeof(*cb));
+    job->jobDataPrivateCb = g_memdup(jobDataPrivateCb, sizeof(*jobDataPrivateCb));

     if (virCondInit(&job->cond) < 0)
         return -1;
@@ -229,6 +229,9 @@ virDomainObjClearJob(virDomainJobObj *job)

     if (job->cb && job->cb->freeJobPrivate)
         g_clear_pointer(&job->privateData, job->cb->freeJobPrivate);
+
+    g_clear_pointer(&job->cb, g_free);
+    g_clear_pointer(&job->jobDataPrivateCb, g_free);
 }

 void
-- 
2.37.1



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