Am 04.03.2025 um 10:04 hat ger...@altlinux.org geschrieben:
> From: Denis Rastyogin <ger...@altlinux.org>
> 
> This error was discovered by fuzzing qemu-img.
> 
> A double-free issue in the VMDK driver occurs when handling snapshots.
> The memory allocated for extent structures is freed twice: first in
> vmdk_close (block/vmdk.c) and then in vmdk_add_extent (block/vmdk.c).
> 
> The fix ensures the s->extents pointer is set to NULL after freeing,
> preventing double-free.
> 
> Closes: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2853
> Signed-off-by: Denis Rastyogin <ger...@altlinux.org>
> ---
>  block/vmdk.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/block/vmdk.c b/block/vmdk.c
> index 2adec49912..d6baa54602 100644
> --- a/block/vmdk.c
> +++ b/block/vmdk.c
> @@ -285,6 +285,7 @@ static void vmdk_free_extents(BlockDriverState *bs)
>      bdrv_graph_wrunlock();
>  
>      g_free(s->extents);
> +    s->extents = NULL;
>  }

This is not the right fix. It only papers over the real bug, which is
that bdrv_snapshot_goto() calls .bdrv_open() for a BlockDriverState
whose bs->opaque hasn't been zeroed. Open functions of block drivers
generally rely on having a zeroed state.

Kevin


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