[libvirt] PATCH: Fix mem corruption after detaching Xen device

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Apr 23 13:48:49 UTC 2009


The XM driver's implementation of the 'detach device' command is causing
memory corruption, but passing the wrong size information to memmove()
by passing number of elements to move, instead of amount of memory to
move. This patch fixes it

Daniel

diff -rup libvirt-0.6.2.orig/src/xm_internal.c libvirt-0.6.2.new/src/xm_internal.c
--- libvirt-0.6.2.orig/src/xm_internal.c	2009-04-03 15:04:28.000000000 +0100
+++ libvirt-0.6.2.new/src/xm_internal.c	2009-04-23 10:53:10.000000000 +0100
@@ -2912,7 +2912,8 @@ xenXMDomainDetachDevice(virDomainPtr dom
                 if (i < (def->ndisks - 1))
                     memmove(def->disks + i,
                             def->disks + i + 1,
-                            def->ndisks - (i + 1));
+                            sizeof(*def->disks) *
+                            (def->ndisks - (i + 1)));
                 break;
             }
         }
@@ -2929,7 +2930,8 @@ xenXMDomainDetachDevice(virDomainPtr dom
                 if (i < (def->nnets - 1))
                     memmove(def->nets + i,
                             def->nets + i + 1,
-                            def->nnets - (i + 1));
+                            sizeof(*def->nets) *
+                            (def->nnets - (i + 1)));
                 break;
             }
         }


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