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[1/1] virtio-rng: Add human-readable error message for negative max-bytes parameter

Message ID 713e8a102222b6b8ca65050d13b287f5705831b0.1406030120.git.amit.shah@redhat.com
State New
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Amit Shah July 22, 2014, 12:03 p.m. UTC 
From: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

If a negative integer is used for the max_bytes parameter, QEMU currently
calls abort() and leaves behind a core dump. This patch replaces the
abort with a simple error message to make the reason for the termination
clearer. This also ensures device-hotplug with invalid input doesn't
cause qemu to quit.

There is an underlying insufficiency in the parameter parsing code of QEMU
that renders it unable to reject negative values for unsigned properties,
thus the error message "a non-negative integer below 2^63" is the most
user-friendly and correct message we can give until the underlying
insufficiency is corrected.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
---
 hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
index 1356aca..7c5a675 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
@@ -181,7 +181,13 @@  static void virtio_rng_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
 
     vrng->vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 8, handle_input);
 
-    assert(vrng->conf.max_bytes <= INT64_MAX);
+    /* Workaround: Property parsing does not enforce unsigned integers,
+     * So this is a hack to reject such numbers. */
+    if (vrng->conf.max_bytes > INT64_MAX) {
+        error_set(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, "max-bytes",
+                  "a non-negative integer below 2^63");
+        return;
+    }
     vrng->quota_remaining = vrng->conf.max_bytes;
 
     vrng->rate_limit_timer = timer_new_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL,