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Commit 17db7e28 authored by Jiri Denemark's avatar Jiri Denemark Committed by Eric Blake
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qemu: Do not access stale data in virDomainBlockStats

CVE-2013-6458
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043069

When virDomainDetachDeviceFlags is called concurrently to
virDomainBlockStats: libvirtd may crash because qemuDomainBlockStats
finds a disk in vm->def before getting a job on a domain and uses the
disk pointer after getting the job. However, the domain in unlocked
while waiting on a job condition and thus data behind the disk pointer
may disappear. This happens when thread 1 runs
virDomainDetachDeviceFlags and enters monitor to actually remove the
disk. Then another thread starts running virDomainBlockStats, finds the
disk in vm->def, and while it's waiting on the job condition (owned by
the first thread), the first thread finishes the disk removal. When the
second thread gets the job, the memory pointed to be the disk pointer is
already gone.

That said, every API that is going to begin a job should do that before
fetching data from vm->def.

(cherry picked from commit db86da5c)
parent 52c40003
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