tools/xl: Fix when config "cpus" is set, but "vcpus" is missing

If we start a guest with 'cpus="all"' and without 'vcpus' or
'maxvcpus' (or sets them to 0), we execute parse_vcpu_affinity() with
`num_cpus=0`. This malloc "b_info->vcpu_hard_affinity" with a buffer
of size 0, which is implementation defined, and we still initialise
the "first" bitmap of this allocation, which mean we have a buffer
overflow.

On Alpine Linux, this result in a segv when the buffer is being
disposed of.

Since libxl will assume there's at least 1 vcpu, we default to 1 in
xl as well. (libxl sets max_vcpus to 1 if unset, and allocate
avail_vcpus if its size is 0.)

Link: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/17809
Fixes: a5dbdcf674 ("libxl/xl: push VCPU affinity pinning down to libxl")
Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
Reviewed-by: Jason Andryuk <jason.andryuk@amd.com>
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Anthony PERARD committed 2026-03-02 15:39:58 +01:00
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@@ -1518,14 +1518,22 @@ void parse_config_data(const char *config_source,
if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "vcpus", &l, 0)) {
vcpus = l;
if (libxl_cpu_bitmap_alloc(ctx, &b_info->avail_vcpus, l)) {
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to allocate cpumap\n");
exit(1);
}
libxl_bitmap_set_none(&b_info->avail_vcpus);
while (l-- > 0)
libxl_bitmap_set((&b_info->avail_vcpus), l);
}
if (vcpus < 1) {
/*
* Default to 1 vCPU, libxl is already assuming this
* when vcpus == 0 and parse_vcpu_affinity() also assume there's at
* least one vcpu.
*/
vcpus = 1;
}
if (libxl_cpu_bitmap_alloc(ctx, &b_info->avail_vcpus, vcpus)) {
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to allocate cpumap\n");
exit(1);
}
libxl_bitmap_set_none(&b_info->avail_vcpus);
for (long vcpu = vcpus; vcpu-- > 0;)
libxl_bitmap_set((&b_info->avail_vcpus), vcpu);
if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "maxvcpus", &l, 0))
b_info->max_vcpus = l;
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