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From: Raphael Norwitz <raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] Fixed assert in vhost_user_set_mem_table_postcopy
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 12:17:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200209171744.GA14921@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200206031922-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

Yes - it's just a cleanup.

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 03:20:01AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 03:17:04AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 09:57:04PM -0500, Raphael Norwitz wrote:
> > > The current vhost_user_set_mem_table_postcopy() implementation
> > > populates each region of the VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE message without
> > > first checking if there are more than VHOST_MEMORY_MAX_NREGIONS already
> > > populated. This can cause memory corruption if too many regions are
> > > added to the message during the postcopy step.
> > > 
> > > This change moves an existing assert up such that attempting to
> > > construct a VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE message with too many memory
> > > regions will gracefully bring down qemu instead of corrupting memory.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Raphael Norwitz <raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Turschmid <peter.turschm@nutanix.com>
> > 
> > 
> > Could you pls add Fixes: and stable tags?
> 
> oh wait no, this is just a theoretical thing, right?
> it doesn't actually trigger, it's just a cleanup.
> 
> no fixes/stable needed then, sorry
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-10  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-16  2:57 [PATCH v2 0/3] vhost-user: Lift Max Ram Slots Limitation Raphael Norwitz
2020-01-16  2:57 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Fixed assert in vhost_user_set_mem_table_postcopy Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-06  8:17   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-06  8:20     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-09 17:17       ` Raphael Norwitz [this message]
2020-01-16  2:57 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Refactor vhost_user_set_mem_table functions Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-06  8:21   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-09 17:21     ` Raphael Norwitz
2020-01-16  2:57 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Lift max memory slots limit imposed by vhost-user Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-06  8:32   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-09 17:43     ` Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-20  7:03       ` Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-25 12:07       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-01-31 21:21 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] vhost-user: Lift Max Ram Slots Limitation Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-06  8:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-09 17:14   ` Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-10 16:04     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-02-19  5:33       ` Raphael Norwitz
2020-02-19 10:08         ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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