On 25.07.23 16:04, German Maglione wrote:


On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 3:51 PM Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com> wrote:
virtio_queue_packed_set_last_avail_idx() is used by vhost devices to set
the internal queue indices to what has been reported by the vhost
back-end through GET_VRING_BASE.  For packed virtqueues, this
32-bit value is expected to contain both the device's internal avail and
used indices, as well as their respective wrap counters.

To get the used index, we shift the 32-bit value right by 16, and then
apply a mask of 0x7ffff.  That seems to be a typo, because it should be
0x7fff; first of all, the virtio specification says that the maximum
queue size for packed virt queues is 2^15, so the indices cannot exceed
2^15 - 1 anyway, making 0x7fff the correct mask.  Second, the mask
clearly is wrong from context, too, given that (A) `idx & 0x70000` must
be 0 at this point (`idx` is 32 bit and was shifted to the right by 16
already), (B) `idx & 0x8000` is the used_wrap_counter, so should not be
part of the used index, and (C) `vq->used_idx` is a `uint16_t`, so
cannot fit the 0x70000 part of the mask anyway.

This most likely never produced any guest-visible bugs, though, because
for a vhost device, qemu will probably not evaluate the used index
outside of virtio_queue_packed_get_last_avail_idx(), where we
reconstruct the 32-bit value from avail and used indices and their wrap
counters again.  There, it does not matter whether the highest bit of
the used_idx is the used index wrap counter, because we put the wrap
counter exactly in that position anyway.

Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
---
 hw/virtio/virtio.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
index 295a603e58..309038fd46 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -3321,7 +3321,7 @@ static void virtio_queue_packed_set_last_avail_idx(VirtIODevice *vdev,
     vq->last_avail_wrap_counter =
         vq->shadow_avail_wrap_counter = !!(idx & 0x8000);
     idx >>= 16;
-    vq->used_idx = idx & 0x7ffff;
+    vq->used_idx = idx & 0x7fff;

isn't there a macro with this value?
or a macro that convert a number of bits in a mask?, something like:
#define BIT_MASK(n) (~(~0 << n))

((1 << n) - 1) would be what I’d come up with; in any case, there is MAKE_64BIT_MASK in qemu/bitops.h, but I don’t know whether I really like MAKE_64BIT_MASK(0, 15) more than 0x7fff.  In addition, that would need to be done throughout that function and I don’t think that’s worth it right now.

Hanna