Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH for v2.3.1] exec: Respect as_translate_internal length clamp

[P J P]

+-- On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, P J P wrote --+
| +-- On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Paolo Bonzini wrote --+
| | but you'll need to look at the archives for all the conversations going on.
| 
|   Okay, I'll go through the archives and confirm here.

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* exec: skip MMIO regions correctly in cpu_physical_memory_write_rom_internal
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-07/msg00967.html

* exec: do not clamp accesses to MMIO regions
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-06/msg05005.html

* exec: clamp accesses against the MemoryRegionSection
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-06/msg05004.html

* exec: Respect as_translate_internal length clamp
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg03888.html

Going through these threads, patches to the 'exec: *' file above seem to be 
relevant to the proposed fix patch '23820dbfc79d1c9'. But others below not so 
much. (maybe I'm missing something).

* ioport: reserve the whole range of an I/O port in the AddressSpace
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg05949.html

* ioport: loosen assertions on emulation of 16-bit ports
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg05948.html

* ioport: remove wrong comment
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg05947.html

* ide: there is only one data port
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg05945.html

* gus: clean up MemoryRegionPortio
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg05946.html

* sb16: remove useless mixer_write_indexw
  -> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-03/msg05950.html
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