Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] virtio-pci: ignore unaligned read/write in virtio_address_space_read()/write()

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Mo, 2015-07-13 at 10:36 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 01:46:47PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > We abort on unaligned read/write in
> > virtio_address_space_read()/write() but since len in under control of
> > guest so qemu will simply crash when booting a modern guest (guest is
> > try to read when len is zero).
> > read.
> 
> How can len be 0? Isn't this a guest bug? Or is this
> a theoretical issue?

Something dumping pci config space?
With pci access capability not being used before and therefore zeroed?
Then hitting the "data" field will trigger a zero-length read.

That assert actually triggers when booting a recent linux kernel with
disable-modern=off

cheers,
  Gerd