On 9/3/21 7:39 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > Per > https://discourse.gnome.org/t/port-your-module-from-g-memdup-to-g-memdup2-now/5538 > > The old API took the size of the memory to duplicate as a guint, > whereas most memory functions take memory sizes as a gsize. This > made it easy to accidentally pass a gsize to g_memdup(). For large > values, that would lead to a silent truncation of the size from 64 > to 32 bits, and result in a heap area being returned which is > significantly smaller than what the caller expects. This can likely > be exploited in various modules to cause a heap buffer overflow. > > g_memdup() as been deprecated in GLib 2.68. Since QEMU defines > GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED to GLIB_VERSION_2_56, the deprecation > is not displayed (on GLib >= 2.68 such available on Fedora 34). > However the function is still unsafe, so it is better to avoid > its use. > > This series provides the safely equivalent g_memdup2() wrapper, > and replace all g_memdup() calls by it. > > The previous link recommend to audit the call sites. Most of the > calls use byte_size=sizeof(STRUCT), and no STRUCT appears to be >> 4GiB. Few calls use unsigned/size_t/uint16_t. Where code is > doing multiplication, patches are sent as RFC. In particular: > hw/net/virtio-net.c > hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c > > Since v1: > - Added missing g_memdup2 -> g_memdup2_qemu compat definition (danpb) > - Do not call g_memdup2_qemu() but directly g_memdup2() (danpb) > > Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (30): > hw/hyperv/vmbus: Remove unused vmbus_load/save_req() > glib-compat: Introduce g_memdup2() wrapper > qapi: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > accel/tcg: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > block/qcow2-bitmap: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > softmmu: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > hw/9pfs: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > hw/acpi: Avoid truncating acpi_data_len() to 32-bit > hw/acpi: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > hw/core/machine: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > hw/hppa/machine: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > hw/i386/multiboot: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > hw/net/eepro100: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > hw/nvram/fw_cfg: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > hw/scsi/mptsas: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > hw/ppc/spapr_pci: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > hw/rdma: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > hw/vfio/pci: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > RFC hw/virtio: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > net/colo: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > RFC ui/clipboard: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > RFC linux-user: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > tests/unit: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > tests/qtest: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > target/arm: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > target/ppc: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > contrib: Replace g_memdup() by g_memdup2() > checkpatch: Do not allow deprecated g_memdup() > f > test
I figured too late I was not placed in the correct commit, please disregard this incomplete series...
