Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH] scsi: mptsas: use g_new0 to allocate MPTSASRequest object

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 12/09/2016 14:44, P J P wrote:
> From: Li Qiang <address@hidden>
> 
> When processing IO request in mptsas, it uses g_new to allocate
> a 'req' object. If an error occurs before 'req->sreq' is
> allocated, It could lead to an OOB write in mptsas_free_request
> function. Use g_new0 to avoid it.
> 
> Reported-by: Li Qiang <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Prasad J Pandit <address@hidden>

Cc: address@hidden

Queued, thanks.

> ---
>  hw/scsi/mptsas.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/scsi/mptsas.c b/hw/scsi/mptsas.c
> index bebe513..7b02130 100644
> --- a/hw/scsi/mptsas.c
> +++ b/hw/scsi/mptsas.c
> @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static int mptsas_process_scsi_io_request(MPTSASState *s,
>          goto bad;
>      }
>  
> -    req = g_new(MPTSASRequest, 1);
> +    req = g_new0(MPTSASRequest, 1);
>      QTAILQ_INSERT_TAIL(&s->pending, req, next);
>      req->scsi_io = *scsi_io;
>      req->dev = s;
>