[PATCH v3 1/6] KVM: Fix coalesced_mmio_has_room()

Ilias Stamatis
2024-08-20T13:35:45Z

The following calculation used in coalesced_mmio_has_room() to check
whether the ring buffer is full is wrong and only allows half the buffer
to be used.

avail = (ring->first - last - 1) % KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_MAX;
if (avail == 0)
/* full */

The % operator in C is not the modulo operator but the remainder
operator. Modulo and remainder operators differ with respect to negative
values. But all values are unsigned in this case anyway.

The above might have worked as expected in python for example:
>>> (-86) % 170
84

However it doesn't work the same way in C.

printf("avail: %d\n", (-86) % 170);
printf("avail: %u\n", (-86) % 170);
printf("avail: %u\n", (-86u) % 170u);

Using gcc-11 these print:

avail: -86
avail: 4294967210
avail: 0

Fix the calculation and allow all but one entries in the buffer to be
used as originally intended.

Fixes: 105f8d40a737 ("KVM: Calculate available entries in coalesced mmio ring")
Signed-off-by: Ilias Stamatis <ilstam@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
---
virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c b/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c
index 1b90acb6e3fe..184c5c40c9c1 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ static int coalesced_mmio_in_range(struct kvm_coalesced_mmio_dev *dev,
static int coalesced_mmio_has_room(struct kvm_coalesced_mmio_dev *dev, u32 last)
{
struct kvm_coalesced_mmio_ring *ring;
- unsigned avail;

/* Are we able to batch it ? */

@@ -52,8 +51,7 @@ static int coalesced_mmio_has_room(struct kvm_coalesced_mmio_dev *dev, u32 last)
* there is always one unused entry in the buffer
*/
ring = dev->kvm->coalesced_mmio_ring;
- avail = (ring->first - last - 1) % KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_MAX;
- if (avail == 0) {
+ if ((last + 1) % KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_MAX == READ_ONCE(ring->first)) {
/* full */
return 0;
}
--
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