From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>,
Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>,
sstabellini@kernel.org, pmatouse@redhat.com,
mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-block@nongnu.org,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
qemu-stable@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyap.cv@gmail.com>,
Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>,
pjp@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] ide: Fix incorrect handling of some PRDTs and add the corresponding unit-test
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:23:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200122122334.GA13482@linux.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3bd803f-aa03-e6bd-2b6a-ef6172a38f4e@linux.com>
Am 22.01.2020 um 12:53 hat Alexander Popov geschrieben:
> On 23.12.2019 20:51, Alexander Popov wrote:
> > Fuzzing the Linux kernel with syzkaller allowed to find how to crash qemu
> > using a special SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND. It hits the assertion in
> > ide_dma_cb() introduced in the commit a718978ed58a in July 2015.
> >
> > This patch series fixes incorrect handling of some PRDTs in ide_dma_cb()
> > and improves the ide-test to cover more PRDT cases (including one
> > that causes that particular qemu crash).
> >
> > Changes from v2 (thanks to Kevin Wolf for the feedback):
> > - the assertion about prepare_buf() return value is improved;
> > - the patch order is reversed to keep the tree bisectable;
> > - the unit-test performance is improved -- now it runs 8 seconds
> > instead of 3 minutes on my laptop.
> >
> > Alexander Popov (2):
> > ide: Fix incorrect handling of some PRDTs in ide_dma_cb()
> > tests/ide-test: Create a single unit-test covering more PRDT cases
> >
> > hw/ide/core.c | 30 +++++---
> > tests/ide-test.c | 174 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
> > 2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
>
> Hello!
>
> Pinging again about this fix and unit-test...
>
> It's ready. Kevin Wolf has reviewed this (thanks a lot!).
>
> What is next?
I asked John about it just yesterday (if he will merge it or if he would
prefer me to take it through my tree) and he promised to take a look
very soon.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-22 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-23 17:51 [PATCH v3 0/2] ide: Fix incorrect handling of some PRDTs and add the corresponding unit-test Alexander Popov
2019-12-23 17:51 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] ide: Fix incorrect handling of some PRDTs in ide_dma_cb() Alexander Popov
2020-01-07 7:34 ` Kevin Wolf
2019-12-23 17:51 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] tests/ide-test: Create a single unit-test covering more PRDT cases Alexander Popov
2020-01-07 7:44 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-01-07 22:39 ` Alexander Popov
2020-01-08 9:23 ` Kevin Wolf
2019-12-28 12:28 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] ide: Fix incorrect handling of some PRDTs and add the corresponding unit-test Alexander Popov
2020-01-22 11:53 ` Alexander Popov
2020-01-22 12:23 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2020-01-22 21:06 ` John Snow
2020-01-22 23:14 ` John Snow
2020-01-23 10:52 ` Alexander Popov
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