[PATCH XENSTORE v1 06/10] xenstored: handle port reads correctly

[Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@xxxxxxxxx>]

The read value could be larger than a signed 32bit integer. As -1 is
used as error value, we should not rely on using the full 32 bits.
Hence, when reading the port number, we should make sure we only return
valid values.

This change sanity checks the input.
The issue is that the value for the port is
 1. transmitted as a string, with a fixed amount of digits.
 2. Next, this string is parsed by a function that can deal with strings
    representing 64bit integers
 3. A 64bit integer is returned, and will be truncated to it's lower
    32bits, resulting in a wrong port number (in case the sender of the
    string decides to craft a suitable 64bit value).

The value is typically provided by the kernel, which has this value hard
coded in the proper range. As we use the function strtoul, non-digit
character are considered as end of the input, and hence do not require
checking. Therefore, this change only covers the corner case to make
sure we stay in the 32 bit range.

This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.

Signed-off-by: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Friebel <friebelt@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 tools/xenstore/xenstored_posix.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/xenstore/xenstored_posix.c b/tools/xenstore/xenstored_posix.c
--- a/tools/xenstore/xenstored_posix.c
+++ b/tools/xenstore/xenstored_posix.c
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ evtchn_port_t xenbus_evtchn(void)
 {
        int fd;
        int rc;
-       evtchn_port_t port;
+       uint64_t port;
        char str[20];
 
        fd = open(XENSTORED_PORT_DEV, O_RDONLY);
@@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ evtchn_port_t xenbus_evtchn(void)
        port = strtoul(str, NULL, 0);
 
        close(fd);
+
+       if (port >= UINT32_MAX)
+               return -1;
+
        return port;
 }
 
-- 
2.17.1




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