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[23/23] configure: Prohibit variable-length allocations by using -Wvla CPPFLAG

Message ID 20210505211047.1496765-24-philmd@redhat.com
State New
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Series misc: Remove variable-length arrays on the stack | expand

Commit Message

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé May 5, 2021, 9:10 p.m. UTC
Now that we converted all variable-length allocations in the
repository, add the -Wvla CPPFLAG to trigger a build failure
if such allocation is used.

This should help avoiding vulnerabilities such CVE-2021-3527
(see commit range 3f67e2e7f13..05a40b172e4).

Inspired-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
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 configure | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Richard Henderson May 7, 2021, 4:56 p.m. UTC | #1
On 5/5/21 2:10 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Now that we converted all variable-length allocations in the
> repository, add the -Wvla CPPFLAG to trigger a build failure
> if such allocation is used.
> 
> This should help avoiding vulnerabilities such CVE-2021-3527
> (see commit range 3f67e2e7f13..05a40b172e4).
> 
> Inspired-by: Gerd Hoffmann<kraxel@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé<philmd@redhat.com>
> ---
>   configure | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

r~
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diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4f374b48890..a78ff15b52f 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@  ARFLAGS="${ARFLAGS-rv}"
 # provides these semantics.)
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fwrapv $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes $QEMU_CFLAGS"
-QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls $QEMU_CFLAGS"
+QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wvla $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 
 # Flags that are needed during configure but later taken care of by Meson