Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Feb 15

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On 02/17/2011 03:26 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 02/16/2011 03:34 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 02/16/2011 04:24 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 02/16/2011 01:13 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 02/15/2011 10:26 AM, Chris Wright wrote:
QAPI and QMP
- Anthony adding a new wiki page to describe all of this

http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI


[ 'change', {'device': 'str', 'target': 'str'}, {'arg': 'str'}, 'none' ]
    ->
void qmp_change(const char *device, const char *target, bool has_arg, const char *arg, Error **errp);

AFAICT a json-string allows embedded NULs ('\0000'). There translate to UTF-8 as '\0', terminating your char *s. Either we use some length/pointer structure, or the parser has to look for them and kill them, and we have to specify them as verboten.

I feel like it would be safer for us to not accept strings with embedded NULs. There's no way we're going to consistently handle this correctly in QEMU since we expect NUL terminated strings. They won't work for any of the standard C functions either.

I agree. Technically we're making a backwards incompatible change to the protocol specification, but I don't think there's any risk that somebody is sending in strings with NULs.

(btw what happens in a non-UTF-8 locale? I guess we should just reject unencodable strings).

While QEMU is mostly ASCII internally, for the purposes of the JSON parser, we always encode and decode UTF-8. We reject invalid UTF-8 sequences. But since JSON is string-encoded unicode, we can always decode a JSON string to valid UTF-8 as long as the string is well formed.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
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