Re: [XEN PATCH] hvmloader: Fix reading ACPI PM1 CNT value

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 09:52:57AM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:09:13PM +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > In order to get the CNT value from QEMU, we were supposed to read a
> > word, according to the implementation in QEMU. But it has been lax and
> > allowed to read a single byte. This has changed with commit
> > 5d971f9e6725 ("memory: Revert "memory: accept mismatching sizes in
> > memory_region_access_valid"") and result in hvmloader crashing on
> > the BUG_ON.
> 
> This is a bug on the QEMU side, the ACPI spec states: "Accesses to PM1
> control registers are accessed through byte and word accesses.".
> That's on section 4.8.3.2.1 PM1 Control Registers of my copy of the
> ACPI spec (6.2A).

I guess we can ignore this patch then, and I should write a patch for
QEMU instead.

> I'm fine with this if such bogus behavior has made it's way into a
> release version of QEMU, but it needs to state it's a workaround for a
> QEMU bug, not a bug in hvmloader.

It hasn't, but might.

> IMO the QEMU change should be reverted.

The change can't be reverted, it is to fix a CVE and isn't related to
ACPI. But we can fix the emulator.

> Thanks, Roger.

Thanks,

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Anthony PERARD