audio/jackaudio: Avoid dynamic stack allocation in qjack_client_init

Avoid a dynamic stack allocation in qjack_client_init(), by using
a g_autofree heap allocation instead.

(We stick with allocate + snprintf() because the JACK API requires
the name to be no more than its maximum size, so g_strdup_printf()
would require an extra truncation step.)

The codebase has very few VLAs, and if we can get rid of them all we
can make the compiler error on new additions.  This is a defensive
measure against security bugs where an on-stack dynamic allocation
isn't correctly size-checked (e.g.  CVE-2021-3527).

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Francisco Iglesias <frasse.iglesias@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Message-id: 20230818155846.1651287-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org

diff --git a/audio/jackaudio.c b/audio/jackaudio.c
index 5bdf3d7a78d6ebd9cca54d6b6b409d554f9aa74c..7cb2a49f97144b22cce922a841f074bde2e5065f 100644 (file)
--- a/audio/jackaudio.c
+++ b/audio/jackaudio.c
@@ -400,7 +400,8 @@ static void qjack_client_connect_ports(QJackClient *c)
 static int qjack_client_init(QJackClient *c)
 {
     jack_status_t status;
-    char client_name[jack_client_name_size()];
+    int client_name_len = jack_client_name_size(); /* includes NUL */
+    g_autofree char *client_name = g_new(char, client_name_len);
     jack_options_t options = JackNullOption;
 
     if (c->state == QJACK_STATE_RUNNING) {
@@ -409,7 +410,7 @@ static int qjack_client_init(QJackClient *c)
 
     c->connect_ports = true;
 
-    snprintf(client_name, sizeof(client_name), "%s-%s",
+    snprintf(client_name, client_name_len, "%s-%s",
         c->out ? "out" : "in",
         c->opt->client_name ? c->opt->client_name : audio_application_name());