qemu/qemu/bb5ab96e35a1b13a2485d239a44ff2d040e9b337 hw/9pfs: cap negotiated msize to transport limit
The 'msize' parameter negotiated during Tversion handshake can be
arbitrarily large as requested by the guest. So far 9p server accepted
any msize value suggested by guest, i.e. server did not cap it at all,
no matter how large, as in practice the upper limit of msize is a client
capability. But as subsequent's security patch shows, capping msize on
server side makes sense as additional safety-net.
Let's cap msize to transport's theoretical limit for msize, mainly to
prevent a bad client from triggering excessive host memory allocations
throughout the session.
We intentionally don't cap msize to transport's current, real response
buffer size, as the response buffer size may vary between individual
requests.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/2105e9a3578c6f751bb64af55c16dd953f393f20.1781287774.git.qemu_oss@crudebyte.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
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