libxl: Fix nul-termination of the return value of libxl_xen_console_read_line()

When built with ASAN, "xl dmesg" crashes in the "printf("%s", line)"
call in main_dmesg().  ASAN reports a heap buffer overflow: an
off-by-one access to cr->buffer.

The readconsole sysctl copies up to count characters into the buffer,
but it does not add a null character at the end.  Despite the
documentation of libxl_xen_console_read_line(), line_r is not
nul-terminated if 16384 characters were copied to the buffer.

Fix this by asking xc_readconsolering() to fill the buffer up to size
- 1.  As the number of characters in the buffer is only needed in
libxl_xen_console_read_line(), make it a local variable there instead
of part of the libxl__xen_console_reader struct.

Fixes: 4024bae739 ("xl: Add subcommand 'xl dmesg'")
Reported-by: Edwin Török <edwin.torok@cloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@cloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@vates.tech>
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Javi Merino authored and Andrew Cooper committed 2024-09-03 10:53:44 +01:00
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@@ -774,12 +774,17 @@ libxl_xen_console_reader *
{
GC_INIT(ctx);
libxl_xen_console_reader *cr;
unsigned int size = 16384;
/*
* We want xen to fill the buffer in as few hypercalls as
* possible, but xen will not nul-terminate it. The default size
* of Xen's console buffer is 16384. Leave one byte at the end
* for the null character.
*/
unsigned int size = 16384 + 1;
cr = libxl__zalloc(NOGC, sizeof(libxl_xen_console_reader));
cr->buffer = libxl__zalloc(NOGC, size);
cr->size = size;
cr->count = size;
cr->clear = clear;
cr->incremental = 1;
@@ -800,10 +805,16 @@ int libxl_xen_console_read_line(libxl_ctx *ctx,
char **line_r)
{
int ret;
/*
* Number of chars to copy into the buffer. xc_readconsolering()
* does not add a null character at the end, so leave a space for
* us to add it.
*/
unsigned int nr_chars = cr->size - 1;
GC_INIT(ctx);
memset(cr->buffer, 0, cr->size);
ret = xc_readconsolering(ctx->xch, cr->buffer, &cr->count,
ret = xc_readconsolering(ctx->xch, cr->buffer, &nr_chars,
cr->clear, cr->incremental, &cr->index);
if (ret < 0) {
LOGE(ERROR, "reading console ring buffer");
@@ -811,7 +822,7 @@ int libxl_xen_console_read_line(libxl_ctx *ctx,
return ERROR_FAIL;
}
if (!ret) {
if (cr->count) {
if (nr_chars) {
*line_r = cr->buffer;
ret = 1;
} else {
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@@ -2077,7 +2077,6 @@ _hidden char *libxl__uuid2string(libxl__gc *gc, const libxl_uuid uuid);
struct libxl__xen_console_reader {
char *buffer;
unsigned int size;
unsigned int count;
unsigned int clear;
unsigned int incremental;
unsigned int index;
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