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H A D9p-iov-marshal.cba42ebb8 Mon Oct 17 07:13:58 CDT 2016 Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@360.cn> 9pfs: allocate space for guest originated empty strings

If a guest sends an empty string paramater to any 9P operation, the current
code unmarshals it into a V9fsString equal to { .size = 0, .data = NULL }.

This is unfortunate because it can cause NULL pointer dereference to happen
at various locations in the 9pfs code. And we don't want to check str->data
everywhere we pass it to strcmp() or any other function which expects a
dereferenceable pointer.

This patch enforces the allocation of genuine C empty strings instead, so
callers don't have to bother.

Out of all v9fs_iov_vunmarshal() users, only v9fs_xattrwalk() checks if
the returned string is empty. It now uses v9fs_string_size() since
name.data cannot be NULL anymore.

Signed-off-by: Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@360.cn>
[groug, rewritten title and changelog,
fix empty string check in v9fs_xattrwalk()]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
/openbmc/qemu/hw/9pfs/
H A D9p.cba42ebb8 Mon Oct 17 07:13:58 CDT 2016 Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@360.cn> 9pfs: allocate space for guest originated empty strings

If a guest sends an empty string paramater to any 9P operation, the current
code unmarshals it into a V9fsString equal to { .size = 0, .data = NULL }.

This is unfortunate because it can cause NULL pointer dereference to happen
at various locations in the 9pfs code. And we don't want to check str->data
everywhere we pass it to strcmp() or any other function which expects a
dereferenceable pointer.

This patch enforces the allocation of genuine C empty strings instead, so
callers don't have to bother.

Out of all v9fs_iov_vunmarshal() users, only v9fs_xattrwalk() checks if
the returned string is empty. It now uses v9fs_string_size() since
name.data cannot be NULL anymore.

Signed-off-by: Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@360.cn>
[groug, rewritten title and changelog,
fix empty string check in v9fs_xattrwalk()]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>