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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] virtio-pci: ignore unaligned read/write in virtio_address_space_read()/write()
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:53:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1436774023.26533.5.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150713102533-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>

On Mo, 2015-07-13 at 10:36 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 01:46:47PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > We abort on unaligned read/write in
> > virtio_address_space_read()/write() but since len in under control of
> > guest so qemu will simply crash when booting a modern guest (guest is
> > try to read when len is zero).
> > read.
> 
> How can len be 0? Isn't this a guest bug? Or is this
> a theoretical issue?

Something dumping pci config space?
With pci access capability not being used before and therefore zeroed?
Then hitting the "data" field will trigger a zero-length read.

That assert actually triggers when booting a recent linux kernel with
disable-modern=off

cheers,
  Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-13  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-13  5:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] virtio-pci: ignore unaligned read/write in virtio_address_space_read()/write() Jason Wang
2015-07-13  5:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] virtio-blk: disable scsi passthrough for 1.0 device Jason Wang
2015-07-13  7:46   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-13  9:00     ` Jason Wang
2015-07-13  9:56       ` Kevin Wolf
2015-07-13 11:51         ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-13 12:22           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-13 12:30             ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-13 12:36               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-13 13:20                 ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-13 14:34                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-13 14:41                     ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-13 15:13                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-13 15:35                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-14 17:43                     ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-15 10:59                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-15 11:46                         ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-15 12:01                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-15 12:43                             ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-15 13:16                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-15 13:40                                 ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-15 14:11                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-15 14:30                                     ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-15 14:39                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-15 15:38                                         ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-15 18:51                                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-16 12:37                                             ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-16 12:47                                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-16 17:22                                                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-17  7:18                                                   ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-13 11:27       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-13  5:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] virtio-blk: set VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT when 1.0 is supported Jason Wang
2015-07-13  5:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Revert "virtio-net: enable virtio 1.0" Jason Wang
2015-07-13  6:16   ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-13  7:22     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-13  8:46       ` Cornelia Huck
2015-07-13  8:29     ` Jason Wang
2015-07-13  5:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] virtio-net: unbreak any layout Jason Wang
2015-07-13  6:50   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-13  8:30     ` Jason Wang
2015-07-13  7:24   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-13  8:22     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-13 10:54       ` Greg Kurz
2015-07-13 11:13         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-13  8:30     ` Jason Wang
2015-07-13  7:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] virtio-pci: ignore unaligned read/write in virtio_address_space_read()/write() Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-13  7:53   ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2015-07-13  8:00     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-07-13  8:39       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-07-13  8:37   ` Jason Wang

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