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From: Dmytro Maluka <dmaluka@chromium.org>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Vineeth Pillai <vineeth@bitbyteword.org>,
	Chuanxiao Dong <chuanxiao.dong@intel.com>,
	Aashish Sharma <aashish@aashishsharma.net>,
	Grzegorz Jaszczyk <jaszczyk@chromium.org>,
	Dmytro Maluka <dmaluka@chromium.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: Fix off-by-one in max_vcpu_ids bounds checks
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:24:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260730182425.1223530-1-dmaluka@chromium.org> (raw)

max_vcpu_ids and KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID are exclusive, i.e. the maximum
allowed vcpu_id value is max_vcpu_ids minus one, not max_vcpu_ids.

Fix the sanity checks for KVM_SET_BOOT_CPU_ID and KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID
and the selftests for them (added in series [1]) to fail when
bsp_vcpu_id is incorrectly set to max_vcpu_ids, not to a value below
max_vcpu_ids.

Also clarify that in the documentation of KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID, in an
attempt to make this a bit less confusing.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240614202859.3597745-1-minipli@grsecurity.net/

Dmytro Maluka (3):
  KVM: selftests: Fix treating KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID as inclusive
  KVM: x86: Fix off-by-one in max_vcpu_ids bounds checks
  Documentation: KVM: Clarify that KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID is exclusive

 Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst                  | 13 ++++++++-----
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                              |  6 +++---
 .../selftests/kvm/x86/max_vcpuid_cap_test.c     | 17 ++++++++++-------
 .../testing/selftests/kvm/x86/set_boot_cpu_id.c |  4 ++--
 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

-- 
2.55.0.508.g3f0d502094-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-30 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-30 18:24 Dmytro Maluka [this message]
2026-07-30 18:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: selftests: Fix treating KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID as inclusive Dmytro Maluka
2026-07-30 18:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: x86: Fix off-by-one in max_vcpu_ids bounds checks Dmytro Maluka
2026-07-30 18:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: KVM: Clarify that KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPU_ID is exclusive Dmytro Maluka

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