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authorJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>2014-07-21 17:44:37 -0400
committerAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>2014-07-22 17:18:55 +0530
commit713e8a102222b6b8ca65050d13b287f5705831b0 (patch)
tree4ed31aa5b0b293022760b1c8624f2492dbc50bce /hw
parent35858955e6c6f9ef41c199d15457c13426ac6434 (diff)
virtio-rng: Add human-readable error message for negative max-bytes parameter
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw')
-rw-r--r--hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-rng.c
index 1356aca8d6..7c5a675674 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,