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From: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>
To: Qemu Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry@daynix.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@360.cn>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scsi: pvscsi: limit process IO loop to maximum page count
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:30:42 +0530 (IST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1609131229220.27819@wniryva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1473223408-24079-1-git-send-email-ppandit@redhat.com>

+-- On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, P J P wrote --+
| From: Prasad J Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>
| 
| Vmware Paravirtual SCSI emulator while processing IO requests
| could run into an infinite loop if 'pvscsi_ring_pop_req_descr'
| always returned positive value. Limit IO loop to the maximum
| page count.
| 
| Reported-by: Li Qiang <liqiang6-s@360.cn>
| Signed-off-by: Prasad J Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>
| ---
|  hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c | 4 +++-
|  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
| 
| diff --git a/hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c b/hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c
| index babac5a..3e77a08 100644
| --- a/hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c
| +++ b/hw/scsi/vmw_pvscsi.c
| @@ -711,11 +711,13 @@ pvscsi_process_request_descriptor(PVSCSIState *s,
|  static void
|  pvscsi_process_io(PVSCSIState *s)
|  {
| +    int descr_pa_cnt = 0;
|      PVSCSIRingReqDesc descr;
|      hwaddr next_descr_pa;
|  
|      assert(s->rings_info_valid);
| -    while ((next_descr_pa = pvscsi_ring_pop_req_descr(&s->rings)) != 0) {
| +    while (((next_descr_pa = pvscsi_ring_pop_req_descr(&s->rings)) != 0)
| +            && descr_pa_cnt++ < PVSCSI_SETUP_RINGS_MAX_NUM_PAGES) {
|  
|          /* Only read after production index verification */
|          smp_rmb();

Ping...!
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-13  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-07  4:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scsi: pvscsi: limit process IO loop to maximum page count P J P
2016-09-13  7:00 ` P J P [this message]
2016-09-13  8:31   ` Dmitry Fleytman
2016-09-13 10:48     ` P J P
2016-09-13 12:10       ` Dmitry Fleytman
2016-09-13 13:09         ` P J P

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