From: Andrey Drobyshev <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>
To: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>, svt-core@virtuozzo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH hci-8.0 0/6] io/channel-websock: fix an unauthenticated crash in the handshake #VSTOR-143316
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 18:51:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18b04493-f414-4543-8686-c1e2baea0702@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260831140620.1204363-1-den@openvz.org>
Ack
Applied to hci-8.0
On 8/31/26 5:06 PM, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> Backport of the upstream series fixing an unauthenticated crash in the
> VNC websocket handshake. A client which can reach a websocket port
> crashes QEMU before it has authenticated, by sending an HTTP greeting
> whose request line holds no space:
>
> printf 'stats\r\nx\r\n\r\n' | nc $host $port
>
> Three defects line up to produce it. The greeting is rejected without
> queueing a response, so the handshake goes on to flush an empty buffer.
> A zero length sendmsg() succeeds and returns 0, which
> qio_channel_socket_writev() mistakes for failure and reports as
> QIO_CHANNEL_ERR_BLOCK with errp left unset. The handshake treats every
> negative return as fatal and hands that NULL Error to
> error_get_pretty(). Patches 1 to 3 close the three links.
>
> Patch 5 is the same NULL Error on the read side of the handshake, where
> ERR_BLOCK is folded into -1. It is reachable for a wss:// client, whose
> master channel is then a TLS channel: a wakeup carrying only part of a
> record makes gnutls report EAGAIN.
>
> The series applies to the branch unchanged, and the new unit test passes
> on it.
>
> Upstream posting, reviewed by the graphics maintainer:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20260831100151.914178-1-den@openvz.org/
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
>
> Denis V. Lunev (6):
> io/channel-socket: do not treat a zero length write as an error
> #VSTOR-143316
> io/channel-websock: send an HTTP 400 when the greeting has no space
> #VSTOR-143316
> io/channel-websock: handle a blocked write during the handshake
> #VSTOR-143316
> tests/unit: add websock handshake test #VSTOR-143316
> io/channel-websock: do not lose QIO_CHANNEL_ERR_BLOCK while reading
> #VSTOR-143316
> tests/unit: cover blocked IO during the websock handshake
> #VSTOR-143316
>
> io/channel-socket.c | 2 +-
> io/channel-websock.c | 10 +-
> tests/unit/meson.build | 1 +
> tests/unit/test-io-channel-websock.c | 249 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 260 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 tests/unit/test-io-channel-websock.c
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-01 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-31 14:06 Denis V. Lunev
2026-08-31 14:06 ` [PATCH hci-8.0 1/6] io/channel-socket: do not treat a zero length write as an error #VSTOR-143316 Denis V. Lunev
2026-08-31 14:06 ` [PATCH hci-8.0 2/6] io/channel-websock: send an HTTP 400 when the greeting has no space #VSTOR-143316 Denis V. Lunev
2026-08-31 14:06 ` [PATCH hci-8.0 3/6] io/channel-websock: handle a blocked write during the handshake #VSTOR-143316 Denis V. Lunev
2026-08-31 14:06 ` [PATCH hci-8.0 4/6] tests/unit: add websock handshake test #VSTOR-143316 Denis V. Lunev
2026-08-31 14:06 ` [PATCH hci-8.0 5/6] io/channel-websock: do not lose QIO_CHANNEL_ERR_BLOCK while reading #VSTOR-143316 Denis V. Lunev
2026-08-31 14:06 ` [PATCH hci-8.0 6/6] tests/unit: cover blocked IO during the websock handshake #VSTOR-143316 Denis V. Lunev
2026-09-01 15:51 ` Andrey Drobyshev [this message]
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