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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch RFC] kvm, cpuid: silence a buffer overflow warning
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:23:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140220132316.GA26776@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5305FE1E.6060902@redhat.com>

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 02:07:42PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 20/02/2014 13:34, Dan Carpenter ha scritto:
> > This seems like a harmless off by one overflow if "i" is the last
> > element in the vcpu->arch.cpuid_entries[] array.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > ---
> > Not tested.  I always wonder if it's worth fixing these or if it's worth
> > reporting them?  Either of those seem like a lot of work for something
> > harmless.
> 
> Could it oops if cpuid_nent is INT_MAX?

cpuid_nent is capped at KVM_MAX_CPUID_ENTRIES (80).

regards,
dan carpenter


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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch RFC] kvm, cpuid: silence a buffer overflow warning
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:23:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140220132316.GA26776@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5305FE1E.6060902@redhat.com>

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 02:07:42PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 20/02/2014 13:34, Dan Carpenter ha scritto:
> > This seems like a harmless off by one overflow if "i" is the last
> > element in the vcpu->arch.cpuid_entries[] array.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > ---
> > Not tested.  I always wonder if it's worth fixing these or if it's worth
> > reporting them?  Either of those seem like a lot of work for something
> > harmless.
> 
> Could it oops if cpuid_nent is INT_MAX?

cpuid_nent is capped at KVM_MAX_CPUID_ENTRIES (80).

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-20 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-20 12:34 [patch RFC] kvm, cpuid: silence a buffer overflow warning Dan Carpenter
2014-02-20 12:34 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-02-20 13:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-20 13:07   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-20 13:18   ` walter harms
2014-02-20 13:18     ` walter harms
2014-02-20 13:19     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-20 13:19       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-20 13:23   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-02-20 13:23     ` Dan Carpenter

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