Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v5] vl: exit if maxcpus is negative

[seeteena]

Thanks Thomas. Since you already put them on cc. I will wait for the 
response.


On 09/25/2017 02:21 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 25.09.2017 10:43, seeteena wrote:
> > Hi Philippe,
> >
> > I have not seen patch went upstream..
> You need to get the attention of a maintainer who could pick up the
> patch, e.g. by putting them on CC:. See the MAINTAINERS file for who is
> responsible for the various parts of QEMU. I've put Eduardo (Numa) and
> Paolo (vl.c) on CC: now, I hope one of them can pick up the patch.
>
>   Thomas
>
>
> > On 09/04/2017 09:12 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > > On 09/04/2017 04:43 AM, Seeteena Thoufeek wrote:
> > > > ---Steps to Reproduce---
> > > >
> > > > When passed a negative number to 'maxcpus' parameter, Qemu aborts
> > > > with a core dump.
> > > >
> > > > Run the following command with maxcpus argument as negative number
> > > >
> > > > ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 --nographic -vga none -machine
> > > > pseries,accel=kvm,kvm-type=HV -m size=200g -device virtio-blk-pci,
> > > > drive=rootdisk -drive file=/home/images/pegas-1.0-ppc64le.qcow2,
> > > > if=none,cache=none,id=rootdisk,format=qcow2 -monitor telnet
> > > > :127.0.0.1:1234,server,nowait -net nic,model=virtio -net
> > > > user -redir tcp:2000::22 -device nec-usb-xhci -smp 8,cores=1,
> > > > threads=1,maxcpus=-12
> > > >
> > > > (process:12149): GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:130: failed to allocate
> > > >    18446744073709550568 bytes
> > > >
> > > > Trace/breakpoint trap
> > > >
> > > > Reported-by: R.Nageswara Sastry <address@hidden>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Seeteena Thoufeek <address@hidden>
> > > Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > > ---
> > > > v1 -> v2:
> > > >     - Fix the error check in vl.c to make it generic.
> > > > v2 -> v3:
> > > >     - Fix coding style pointed out by patchew.
> > > >     - Fix check for "<= 0" instead of just "< 0".
> > > > v3 -> v4:
> > > >     - Fix subject line.
> > > >     - Removed space before ":" from vl.c:1248
> > > >     - Removed Reviewed-by: flag
> > > > v4-> v5:
> > > >     - Code rework to declare max_cpus as unsigned int in sysemu.h
> > > >     - Remove the error check in vl.c referred in v2.
> > > >     - declare max_cpus as unsigned int in vl.c
> > > > ---
> > > >    include/sysemu/sysemu.h | 2 +-
> > > >    vl.c                    | 6 +++---
> > > >    2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/include/sysemu/sysemu.h b/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
> > > > index b213696..c083869 100644
> > > > --- a/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
> > > > +++ b/include/sysemu/sysemu.h
> > > > @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ extern int win2k_install_hack;
> > > >    extern int alt_grab;
> > > >    extern int ctrl_grab;
> > > >    extern int smp_cpus;
> > > > -extern int max_cpus;
> > > > +extern unsigned int max_cpus;
> > > >    extern int cursor_hide;
> > > >    extern int graphic_rotate;
> > > >    extern int no_quit;
> > > > diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> > > > index 8e247cc..1470c21 100644
> > > > --- a/vl.c
> > > > +++ b/vl.c
> > > > @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Chardev *sclp_hds[MAX_SCLP_CONSOLES];
> > > >    int win2k_install_hack = 0;
> > > >    int singlestep = 0;
> > > >    int smp_cpus = 1;
> > > > -int max_cpus = 1;
> > > > +unsigned int max_cpus = 1;
> > > >    int smp_cores = 1;
> > > >    int smp_threads = 1;
> > > >    int acpi_enabled = 1;
> > > > @@ -4233,8 +4233,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
> > > >          machine_class->max_cpus = machine_class->max_cpus ?: 1; /*
> > > > Default to UP */
> > > >        if (max_cpus > machine_class->max_cpus) {
> > > > -        error_report("Number of SMP CPUs requested (%d) exceeds max
> > > > CPUs "
> > > > -                     "supported by machine '%s' (%d)", max_cpus,
> > > > +        error_report("Invalid SMP CPUs %d. The max CPUs "
> > > > +                     "supported by machine '%s' is %d", max_cpus,
> > > >                         machine_class->name, machine_class->max_cpus);
> > > >            exit(1);
> > > >        }