Re: [PATCH v2] block: Fix pad_request's request restriction

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

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On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 10:59:38AM +0200, Hanna Czenczek wrote:
> bdrv_pad_request() relies on requests' lengths not to exceed SIZE_MAX,
> which bdrv_check_qiov_request() does not guarantee.
> 
> bdrv_check_request32() however will guarantee this, and both of
> bdrv_pad_request()'s callers (bdrv_co_preadv_part() and
> bdrv_co_pwritev_part()) already run it before calling
> bdrv_pad_request().  Therefore, bdrv_pad_request() can safely call
> bdrv_check_request32() without expecting error, too.
> 
> In effect, this patch will not change guest-visible behavior.  It is a
> clean-up to tighten a condition to match what is guaranteed by our
> callers, and which exists purely to show clearly why the subsequent
> assertion (`assert(*bytes <= SIZE_MAX)`) is always true.
> 
> Note there is a difference between the interfaces of
> bdrv_check_qiov_request() and bdrv_check_request32(): The former takes
> an errp, the latter does not, so we can no longer just pass
> &error_abort.  Instead, we need to check the returned value.  While we
> do expect success (because the callers have already run this function),
> an assert(ret == 0) is not much simpler than just to return an error if
> it occurs, so let us handle errors by returning them up the stack now.
> 
> Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Fixes: 18743311b829cafc1737a5f20bc3248d5f91ee2a
>        ("block: Collapse padded I/O vecs exceeding IOV_MAX")
> Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Added paragraph to the commit message to express explicitly that this
>   patch will not change guest-visible behavior
> - (No code changes)
> ---
>  block/io.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Thanks, applied to my block-next tree:
https://gitlab.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block-next

Stefan

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