Re: [PATCH for-8.1] hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd: Use correct struct in query_port()

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

Ping^2 for review/pickup by the rdma folks, please?

thanks
-- PMM

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 at 16:49, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 12:36, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > In query_port() we pass the address of a local pvrdma_port_attr
> > struct to the rdma_query_backend_port() function.  Unfortunately,
> > rdma_backend_query_port() wants a pointer to a struct ibv_port_attr,
> > and the two are not the same length.
> >
> > Coverity spotted this (CID 1507146): pvrdma_port_attr is 48 bytes
> > long, and ibv_port_attr is 52 bytes, because it has a few extra
> > fields at the end.
> >
> > Fortunately, all we do with the attrs struct after the call is to
> > read a few specific fields out of it which are all at the same
> > offsets in both structs, so we can simply make the local variable the
> > correct type.  This also lets us drop the cast (which should have
> > been a bit of a warning flag that we were doing something wrong
> > here).
> >
> > Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > I don't know anything about the rdma code so this fix is based
> > purely on looking at the code, and is untested beyond just
> > make check/make check-avocado.
> > ---
> >  hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c | 5 ++---
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c b/hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c
> > index c6ed0259821..d31c1875938 100644
> > --- a/hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c
> > +++ b/hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c
> > @@ -129,14 +129,13 @@ static int query_port(PVRDMADev *dev, union pvrdma_cmd_req *req,
> >  {
> >      struct pvrdma_cmd_query_port *cmd = &req->query_port;
> >      struct pvrdma_cmd_query_port_resp *resp = &rsp->query_port_resp;
> > -    struct pvrdma_port_attr attrs = {};
> > +    struct ibv_port_attr attrs = {};
> >
> >      if (cmd->port_num > MAX_PORTS) {
> >          return -EINVAL;
> >      }
> >
> > -    if (rdma_backend_query_port(&dev->backend_dev,
> > -                                (struct ibv_port_attr *)&attrs)) {
> > +    if (rdma_backend_query_port(&dev->backend_dev, &attrs)) {
> >          return -ENOMEM;
> >      }
>
> Ping for review/testing by the rdma folks, please ?
> Whose tree should this patch go through?