[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk] Run-time check monitor per display count <= 256

Uri Lublin uril at redhat.com
Wed Jul 18 07:38:36 PDT 2012


Hi Marc-Andre,

On 07/18/2012 02:15 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Limit range of monitors, to avoid potential crashes lead by invalid
> received MonitorConfig values (could be misconfigured or misbehaving
> guest)
>
> This is a a client-side implementation limitation. Eventually, the
> range could be inscreased (or unlimited == 0) in the future...

To me, it seems safer to just ignore such messages.
If the values of config->max_allowed or config->count are wrong why
do you trust config->heads ?

But since the patch does provide a little bit safer spice-gtk, ack.


> ---
>   gtk/channel-display.c |   16 +++++++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gtk/channel-display.c b/gtk/channel-display.c
> index d77447a..72d2c12 100644
> --- a/gtk/channel-display.c
> +++ b/gtk/channel-display.c
> @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
>   #define SPICE_DISPLAY_CHANNEL_GET_PRIVATE(obj)                                  \
>       (G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_PRIVATE((obj), SPICE_TYPE_DISPLAY_CHANNEL, SpiceDisplayChannelPrivate))
>
> +#define MONITORS_MAX 256
> +
>   struct _SpiceDisplayChannelPrivate {
>       Ring                        surfaces;
>       display_cache               *images;
> @@ -275,7 +277,7 @@ static void spice_display_channel_class_init(SpiceDisplayChannelClass *klass)
>            g_param_spec_uint("monitors-max",
>                              "Max display monitors",
>                              "The current maximum number of monitors",
> -                           1, G_MAXINT16, 1,
> +                           1, MONITORS_MAX, 1,
>                              G_PARAM_READABLE |
>                              G_PARAM_STATIC_STRINGS));
>
> @@ -1493,6 +1495,8 @@ static void display_handle_surface_destroy(SpiceChannel *channel, SpiceMsgIn *in
>       free(surface);
>   }
>
> +#define CLAMP_CHECK(x, low, high)  (((x)>  (high)) ? TRUE : (((x)<  (low)) ? TRUE : FALSE))
> +
>   /* coroutine context */
>   static void display_handle_monitors_config(SpiceChannel *channel, SpiceMsgIn *in)
>   {
> @@ -1506,6 +1510,16 @@ static void display_handle_monitors_config(SpiceChannel *channel, SpiceMsgIn *in
>       SPICE_DEBUG("monitors config: n: %d/%d", config->count, config->max_allowed);
>
>       c->monitors_max = config->max_allowed;
> +    if (CLAMP_CHECK(c->monitors_max, 1, MONITORS_MAX)) {
> +        g_warning("MonitorConfig max_allowed is not within permitted range, clamping");
> +        c->monitors_max = CLAMP(c->monitors_max, 1, MONITORS_MAX);
> +    }
> +
> +    if (CLAMP_CHECK(config->count, 1, c->monitors_max)) {
> +        g_warning("MonitorConfig count is not within permitted range, clamping");
> +        config->count = CLAMP(config->count, 1, c->monitors_max);
> +    }
> +
>       c->monitors = g_array_set_size(c->monitors, config->count);
>
>       for (i = 0; i<  config->count; i++) {



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