RE: [PATCH] virtio/vhost-user: Fix wrong vhost notifier GPtrArray size

[Dong, Eddie]

Reviewed-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Qemu-devel <qemu-devel-
> bounces+eddie.dong=intel.com@nongnu.org> On Behalf Of Yajun Wu
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 8:49 PM
> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; mst@redhat.com; alex.bennee@linaro.org;
> yajunw@nvidia.com
> Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] virtio/vhost-user: Fix wrong vhost notifier GPtrArray size
> 
> In fetch_or_create_notifier, idx begins with 0. So the GPtrArray size should
> be idx + 1 and g_ptr_array_set_size should be called with idx + 1.
> 
> This wrong GPtrArray size causes fetch_or_create_notifier return an invalid
> address. Passing this invalid pointer to vhost_user_host_notifier_remove
> causes assert fail:
> 
>     qemu/include/qemu/int128.h:27: int128_get64: Assertion `r == a' failed.
>       shutting down, reason=crashed
> 
> Backends like dpdk-vdpa which sends out vhost notifier requests almost
> always hit qemu crash.
> 
> Fixes: 503e355465 ("virtio/vhost-user: dynamically assign
> VhostUserHostNotifiers")
> Signed-off-by: Yajun Wu <yajunw@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
> Change-Id: I87e0f7591ca9a59d210879b260704a2d9e9d6bcd
> ---
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c index
> b040c1ad2b..dbc690d16c 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c
> @@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@ static VhostUserHostNotifier
> *fetch_or_create_notifier(VhostUserState *u,  {
>      VhostUserHostNotifier *n = NULL;
>      if (idx >= u->notifiers->len) {
> -        g_ptr_array_set_size(u->notifiers, idx);
> +        g_ptr_array_set_size(u->notifiers, idx + 1);
>      }
> 
>      n = g_ptr_array_index(u->notifiers, idx);
> --
> 2.36.0
>