[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11] qcow2: Fix overly broad madvise()

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

@mem_size and @offset are both size_t, thus subtracting them from one
another will just return a big size_t if mem_size < offset -- even more
obvious here because the result is stored in another size_t.

Checking that result to be positive is therefore not sufficient to
excluse the case that offset > mem_size.  Thus, we currently sometimes
issue an madvise() over a very large address range.

This is triggered by iotest 163, but with -m64, this does not result in
tangible problems.  But with -m32, this test produces three segfaults,
all of which are fixed by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
---
 block/qcow2-cache.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/qcow2-cache.c b/block/qcow2-cache.c
index 75746a7f43..5222a7b94d 100644
--- a/block/qcow2-cache.c
+++ b/block/qcow2-cache.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static void qcow2_cache_table_release(BlockDriverState *bs, Qcow2Cache *c,
     size_t mem_size = (size_t) s->cluster_size * num_tables;
     size_t offset = QEMU_ALIGN_UP((uintptr_t) t, align) - (uintptr_t) t;
     size_t length = QEMU_ALIGN_DOWN(mem_size - offset, align);
-    if (length > 0) {
+    if (mem_size > offset && length > 0) {
         madvise((uint8_t *) t + offset, length, MADV_DONTNEED);
     }
 #endif
-- 
2.13.6