Re: [PATCH 3/4] net/dump: Avoid variable length array

[Francisco Iglesias]

On [2023 Aug 24] Thu 16:32:23, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Use a g_autofree heap allocation instead of a variable length
> array in dump_receive_iov().
> 
> The codebase has very few VLAs, and if we can get rid of them all we
> can make the compiler error on new additions.  This is a defensive
> measure against security bugs where an on-stack dynamic allocation
> isn't correctly size-checked (e.g.  CVE-2021-3527).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Francisco Iglesias <frasse.iglesias@gmail.com>

> ---
>  net/dump.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/dump.c b/net/dump.c
> index 7d05f16ca7a..16073f24582 100644
> --- a/net/dump.c
> +++ b/net/dump.c
> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static ssize_t dump_receive_iov(DumpState *s, const struct 
> iovec *iov, int cnt,
>      int64_t ts;
>      int caplen;
>      size_t size = iov_size(iov, cnt) - offset;
> -    struct iovec dumpiov[cnt + 1];
> +    g_autofree struct iovec *dumpiov = g_new(struct iovec, cnt + 1);
>  
>      /* Early return in case of previous error. */
>      if (s->fd < 0) {
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
>