Re: [PATCH v4 for-6.0 05/12] esp: introduce esp_fifo_pop_buf() and use it instead of fifo8_pop_buf()

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 4/7/21 9:57 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> The const pointer returned by fifo8_pop_buf() lies directly within the array 
> used
> to model the FIFO. Building with address sanitizers enabled shows that if the
> caller expects a minimum number of bytes present then if the FIFO is nearly 
> full,
> the caller may unexpectedly access past the end of the array.
> 
> Introduce esp_fifo_pop_buf() which takes a destination buffer and performs a
> memcpy() in it to guarantee that the caller cannot overwrite the FIFO array 
> and
> update all callers to use it. Similarly add underflow protection similar to
> esp_fifo_push() and esp_fifo_pop() so that instead of triggering an assert()
> the operation becomes a no-op.
> 
> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1909247
> Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
> Tested-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
> ---
>  hw/scsi/esp.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Way cleaner/safer.

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>