[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: Fix lduw_p() pointer argument of wrong size

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:42:28PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> A pointer to a size_t variable was passed as the void * pointer to
> lduw_p() in virtio_net_receive().  Instead of acting on the 16-bit value
> this caused failure on big-endian hosts.
> 
> Avoid this issue in the future by using stw_p() instead.  In general we
> should use ld*_p() for loading from target memory and st*_p() for
> storing to target memory anyway, not the other way around.
> 
> Also tighten up a correct use of lduw_p() when stw_p() should be used
> instead in virtio_net_get_config().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  hw/virtio-net.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Thanks a lot for the quick patch, I confirm it fixes big endian support.
I have applied it, also to the stable branch.

> diff --git a/hw/virtio-net.c b/hw/virtio-net.c
> index 20cf680..5962298 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio-net.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio-net.c
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static void virtio_net_get_config(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t *config)
>      VirtIONet *n = to_virtio_net(vdev);
>      struct virtio_net_config netcfg;
>  
> -    netcfg.status = lduw_p(&n->status);
> +    stw_p(&netcfg.status, n->status);
>      memcpy(netcfg.mac, n->mac, ETH_ALEN);
>      memcpy(config, &netcfg, sizeof(netcfg));
>  }
> @@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ static ssize_t virtio_net_receive(VLANClientState *nc, const uint8_t *buf, size_
>      }
>  
>      if (mhdr) {
> -        mhdr->num_buffers = lduw_p(&i);
> +        stw_p(&mhdr->num_buffers, i);
>      }
>  
>      virtqueue_flush(n->rx_vq, i);
> -- 
> 1.7.2.3
> 
> 

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