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From: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel][BUG][PATCH] Fix crash in kvm.c
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:00:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <493A4D2D.4060300@mail.berlios.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4939B2F3.5060307@codemonkey.ws>

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Anthony Liguori schrieb:
> Stefan Weil wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori schrieb:
>>  
>>> Stefan Weil wrote:
>>>    
>>>> I got a crash (array access out of bounds results in access fault)
>>>> with the current Qemu trunk when kvm is enabled:
>>>>
>>>> qemu -fda fd.img -cdrom cdrom.img -hda hda.img -hdb raw.img -m 256
>>>> -boot
>>>> c -enable-kvm
>>>>
>>>> Host is Debian x86_64, the crash occurs before any code is emulated.
>>>>         
>>> Is the patch incomplete, perhaps?  It seems to just add asserts which
>>> shouldn't fix anything.
>>>     
>>
>> The essential change was to replace "int i" by "unsigned i".
>> i = 0x80000000 is negative, so the for loop went until there was an
>> access fault.
>>   
>
> We should change limit too, right?
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>


Right, and cpuid_i, too. "uint32_t" is even better than "unsigned".
Here is a new patch, now without assertions, so it can be applied to
Qemu trunk.

Regards
Stefan



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Fix crash with kvm enabled.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> 

Index: target-i386/kvm.c
===================================================================
--- target-i386/kvm.c	(revision 5889)
+++ target-i386/kvm.c	(working copy)
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
         struct kvm_cpuid cpuid;
         struct kvm_cpuid_entry entries[100];
     } __attribute__((packed)) cpuid_data;
-    int limit, i, cpuid_i;
+    uint32_t limit, i, cpuid_i;
     uint32_t eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
 
     cpuid_i = 0;

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-06 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-05 22:15 [Qemu-devel][BUG][PATCH] Fix crash in kvm.c Stefan Weil
2008-12-05 22:37 ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]   ` <4939B25F.8030203@mail.berlios.de>
     [not found]     ` <4939B2F3.5060307@codemonkey.ws>
2008-12-06 10:00       ` Stefan Weil [this message]
2008-12-11 21:03         ` Anthony Liguori

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