From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

POSIX states that the value of endptr is unspecified if strtol()
fails with EINVAL due to an invalid base argument.  Since none of
the callers to check_strtox_error() initialized endptr, we could
end up propagating uninitialized data back to a caller on error.
However, passing an out-of-range base is already a sign of poor
programming, so let's just assert that base is in range, at which
point check_strtox_error() can be tightened to assert that it is
receiving an initialized ep that points somewhere within the
caller's original string, regardless of whether strto*() succeeded
or failed with ERANGE.

Reported-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20181206151856.77503-1-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
---
 util/cutils.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/util/cutils.c b/util/cutils.c
index 698bd315bd..0621565930 100644
--- a/util/cutils.c
+++ b/util/cutils.c
@@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ int qemu_strtosz_metric(const char *nptr, char **end, uint64_t *result)
 static int check_strtox_error(const char *nptr, char *ep,
                               const char **endptr, int libc_errno)
 {
+    assert(ep >= nptr);
     if (endptr) {
         *endptr = ep;
     }
@@ -327,6 +328,7 @@ int qemu_strtoi(const char *nptr, const char **endptr, int base,
     char *ep;
     long long lresult;
 
+    assert((unsigned) base <= 36 && base != 1);
     if (!nptr) {
         if (endptr) {
             *endptr = nptr;
@@ -379,6 +381,7 @@ int qemu_strtoui(const char *nptr, const char **endptr, int base,
     char *ep;
     long long lresult;
 
+    assert((unsigned) base <= 36 && base != 1);
     if (!nptr) {
         if (endptr) {
             *endptr = nptr;
@@ -435,6 +438,7 @@ int qemu_strtol(const char *nptr, const char **endptr, int base,
 {
     char *ep;
 
+    assert((unsigned) base <= 36 && base != 1);
     if (!nptr) {
         if (endptr) {
             *endptr = nptr;
@@ -477,6 +481,7 @@ int qemu_strtoul(const char *nptr, const char **endptr, int base,
 {
     char *ep;
 
+    assert((unsigned) base <= 36 && base != 1);
     if (!nptr) {
         if (endptr) {
             *endptr = nptr;
@@ -504,6 +509,7 @@ int qemu_strtoi64(const char *nptr, const char **endptr, int base,
 {
     char *ep;
 
+    assert((unsigned) base <= 36 && base != 1);
     if (!nptr) {
         if (endptr) {
             *endptr = nptr;
@@ -527,6 +533,7 @@ int qemu_strtou64(const char *nptr, const char **endptr, int base,
 {
     char *ep;
 
+    assert((unsigned) base <= 36 && base != 1);
     if (!nptr) {
         if (endptr) {
             *endptr = nptr;
@@ -594,6 +601,7 @@ int parse_uint(const char *s, unsigned long long *value, char **endptr,
     char *endp = (char *)s;
     unsigned long long val = 0;
 
+    assert((unsigned) base <= 36 && base != 1);
     if (!s) {
         r = -EINVAL;
         goto out;
-- 
2.19.2