On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> From: Dominique Martinet <[email protected]>
> 
> If the xen bus exists but does not expose the proper interface, it is
> possible to get a non-zero length but still some error, leading to
> strcmp failing trying to load invalid memory addresses e.g.
> fffffffffffffffe.
> 
> There is then no need to check length when there is no error, as the
> xenbus driver guarantees that the string is nul-terminated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>


> ---
> 
> This is a trivial bug I stumbled on when setting up xen with p9fs and
> running the VM in pvm: it had enough in the bus to trigger the probe
> but then there was no version and it tried to return ENOENT but len
> was set to the lower-level message size.
> 
>  net/9p/trans_xen.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/9p/trans_xen.c b/net/9p/trans_xen.c
> index 1a5b38892eb4..f76beadddfc3 100644
> --- a/net/9p/trans_xen.c
> +++ b/net/9p/trans_xen.c
> @@ -391,9 +391,9 @@ static int xen_9pfs_front_probe(struct xenbus_device *dev,
>       unsigned int max_rings, max_ring_order, len = 0;
>  
>       versions = xenbus_read(XBT_NIL, dev->otherend, "versions", &len);
> -     if (!len)
> -             return -EINVAL;
> +     if (IS_ERR(versions))
> +             return PTR_ERR(versions);
>       if (strcmp(versions, "1")) {
>               kfree(versions);
>               return -EINVAL;
>       }
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

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