The Qemu socket protocol consists of a 32-bit frame length in network (BE)
order, followed by the Ethernet frame itself. As far as I can tell,
frames can be any length, with no particular alignment requirement. This
means that although pkt_buf itself is aligned, if we have a frame of odd
length, frames after it will have their frame length at an unaligned
address.
Currently we load the frame length by just casting a char pointer to
(uint32_t *) and loading. Some platforms will generate a fatal trap on
such an unaligned load. Even if they don't casting an incorrectly aligned
pointer to (uint32_t *) is undefined behaviour, strictly speaking.
Introduce a new helper to safely load a possibly unaligned value here. We
assume that the compiler is smart enough to optimize this into nothing on
platforms that provide performant unaligned loads. If that turns out not
to be the case, we can look at improvements then.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
tap.c | 2 +-
util.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tap.c b/tap.c
index df1287ad..aca27bb9 100644
--- a/tap.c
+++ b/tap.c
@@ -1011,7 +1011,7 @@ void tap_handler_passt(struct ctx *c, uint32_t events,
}
while (n > (ssize_t)sizeof(uint32_t)) {
- uint32_t l2len = ntohl(*(uint32_t *)p);
+ uint32_t l2len = ntohl_unaligned(p);
if (l2len < sizeof(struct ethhdr) || l2len > ETH_MAX_MTU) {
err("Invalid frame size from QEMU (corrupt stream?)");
diff --git a/util.h b/util.h
index 826614cf..5a038e29 100644
--- a/util.h
+++ b/util.h
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <signal.h>
+#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include "log.h"
@@ -116,6 +118,20 @@
#define htonl_constant(x) (__bswap_constant_32(x))
#endif
+/**
+ * ntohl_unaligned() - Read 32-bit BE value from a possibly unaligned address
+ * @p: Pointer to the BE value in memory
+ *
+ * Returns: Host-order value of 32-bit BE quantity at @p
+ */
+static inline uint32_t ntohl_unaligned(const void *p)
+{
+ uint32_t val;
+
+ memcpy(&val, p, sizeof(val));
+ return ntohl(val);
+}
+
#define NS_FN_STACK_SIZE (RLIMIT_STACK_VAL * 1024 / 8)
int do_clone(int (*fn)(void *), char *stack_area, size_t stack_size, int flags,
void *arg);
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