Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vhost: fix log base address

[Peter Maydell]

On 16 April 2015 at 22:26, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On 15/04/2015 11:56, zhanghailiang wrote:
>> On 2015/4/15 17:37, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> VHOST_SET_LOG_BASE got an incorrect address, causing
>>> migration errors and potentially even memory corruption.
>>>
>>> Cc: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
>>> Reported-by: Wen Congyang <address@hidden>
>>> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Could you please confirm this fixes the problem for you?
>>>
>>>   hw/virtio/vhost.c | 5 ++++-
>>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost.c b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
>>> index 8dd2f59..02c5604 100644
>>> --- a/hw/virtio/vhost.c
>>> +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost.c
>>> @@ -1016,10 +1016,13 @@ int vhost_dev_start(struct vhost_dev *hdev,
>>> VirtIODevice *vdev)
>>>       }
>>>
>>>       if (hdev->log_enabled) {
>>> +        uint64_t log_base;
>>> +
>>>           hdev->log_size = vhost_get_log_size(hdev);
>>>           hdev->log = hdev->log_size ?
>>>               g_malloc0(hdev->log_size * sizeof *hdev->log) : NULL;
>>> -        r = hdev->vhost_ops->vhost_call(hdev, VHOST_SET_LOG_BASE,
>>> hdev->log);
>>> +        log_base = (uint64_t)(unsigned long)log_base;
>>                                                ^^^^^^^^
>>
>> s/log_base/hdev->log ?
>
> Also s/unsigned long/uintptr_t/ please.  The subsequent cast to uint64_t
> is not necessary.

I think this is our remaining for-2.3 bug; would somebody like
to produce and test a patch with all the fixes mentioned in
this thread?

thanks
-- PMM