Using stat() before opening a file or a directory can lead to a
time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) filesystem race, which is
reported by coverity as a Security best practices violations. The
sequence could be replaced by open and fdopendir but it doesn't add
much in this case. Simply use opendir to avoid the race.
Fixes: CID 1531551
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <c...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.d...@intel.com>
---
hw/vfio/iommufd.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/vfio/iommufd.c b/hw/vfio/iommufd.c
index
d4c586e842def8f04d3a914843f5eece2c75ea30..9bfddc1360895413176a9f170e29e89027384a66
100644
--- a/hw/vfio/iommufd.c
+++ b/hw/vfio/iommufd.c
@@ -121,17 +121,11 @@ static int iommufd_cdev_getfd(const char *sysfs_path,
Error **errp)
DIR *dir = NULL;
struct dirent *dent;
gchar *contents;
- struct stat st;
gsize length;
int major, minor;
dev_t vfio_devt;
path = g_strdup_printf("%s/vfio-dev", sysfs_path);
- if (stat(path, &st) < 0) {
- error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "no such host device");
- goto out_free_path;
- }
-
dir = opendir(path);
if (!dir) {
error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "couldn't open directory %s", path);
--
2.43.0
