Make VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER cope with null pointers. Previously the reward for trying to migrate an array with some null pointers in it was an illegal memory access, that is a swift and painless death of the process. Let's make vmstate cope with this scenario.
The general approach is, when we encounter a null pointer (element), instead of following the pointer to save/load the data behind it, we save/load a placeholder. This way we can detect if we expected a null pointer at the load side but not null data was saved instead. Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Guenther Hutzl <hu...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- We will need this to load/save some on demand created state in the (s390x) channel subsystem (see ChannelSubSys.css in hw/s390x/css.c for an example). --- include/migration/vmstate.h | 4 ++++ migration/vmstate.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/migration/vmstate.h b/include/migration/vmstate.h index 63e7b02..f2dbf84 100644 --- a/include/migration/vmstate.h +++ b/include/migration/vmstate.h @@ -253,6 +253,10 @@ extern const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_uint16; extern const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_uint32; extern const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_uint64; +/** Put this in the stream when migrating a null pointer.*/ +#define VMS_NULLPTR_MARKER (0x30U) /* '0' */ +extern const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_nullptr; + extern const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_float64; extern const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_cpudouble; diff --git a/migration/vmstate.c b/migration/vmstate.c index 836a7a4..cb81cef 100644 --- a/migration/vmstate.c +++ b/migration/vmstate.c @@ -117,7 +117,11 @@ int vmstate_load_state(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd, if (field->flags & VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER) { curr_elem = *(void **)curr_elem; } - if (field->flags & VMS_STRUCT) { + if (!curr_elem) { + /* if null pointer check placeholder and do not follow */ + assert(field->flags & VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER); + vmstate_info_nullptr.get(f, curr_elem, size, NULL); + } else if (field->flags & VMS_STRUCT) { ret = vmstate_load_state(f, field->vmsd, curr_elem, field->vmsd->version_id); } else { @@ -332,7 +336,11 @@ void vmstate_save_state(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd, assert(curr_elem); curr_elem = *(void **)curr_elem; } - if (field->flags & VMS_STRUCT) { + if (!curr_elem) { + /* if null pointer write placeholder and do not follow */ + assert(field->flags & VMS_ARRAY_OF_POINTER); + vmstate_info_nullptr.put(f, curr_elem, size, NULL, NULL); + } else if (field->flags & VMS_STRUCT) { vmstate_save_state(f, field->vmsd, curr_elem, vmdesc_loop); } else { field->info->put(f, curr_elem, size, field, vmdesc_loop); @@ -747,6 +755,27 @@ const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_uint64 = { .put = put_uint64, }; +static int get_nullptr(QEMUFile *f, void *pv, size_t size, VMStateField *field) + +{ + return qemu_get_byte(f) == VMS_NULLPTR_MARKER ? 0 : -EINVAL; +} + +static int put_nullptr(QEMUFile *f, void *pv, size_t size, + VMStateField *field, QJSON *vmdesc) + +{ + assert(pv == NULL); + qemu_put_byte(f, VMS_NULLPTR_MARKER); + return 0; +} + +const VMStateInfo vmstate_info_nullptr = { + .name = "uint64", + .get = get_nullptr, + .put = put_nullptr, +}; + /* 64 bit unsigned int. See that the received value is the same than the one in the field */ -- 2.8.4