Re: [PATCH v2] virt-host-validate: Allow longer list of CPU flags

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On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 13:54:33 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On various occasions, virt-host-validate parses /proc/cpuinfo to
> learn about CPU flags (see virHostValidateGetCPUFlags()). It does
> so, by reading the file line by line until the line with CPU
> flags is reached. Then the line is split into individual flags
> (using space as a delimiter) and the list of flags is then
> iterated over.
> 
> This works, except for cases when the line with CPU flags is too
> long. Problem is - the line is capped at 1024 bytes and on newer
> CPUs (and newer kernels), the line can be significantly longer.
> I've seen a line that's ~1200 characters long (with 164 flags
> reported).
> 
> Switch to unbounded read from the file (getline()).
> 
> Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-39969
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> v2 of:
> 
> https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/LK74PN7JIDVKY5MZC4664RZTMOG7F5AR/
> 
> diff to v2:
> - Keep trimming of the optional newline
> 
>  tools/virt-host-validate-common.c | 18 +++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@xxxxxxxxxx>



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