Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v3 1/4] unify len and addr type for memory/address APIs

[Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>]

On 12/3/18 8:48 AM, Li Zhijian wrote:
> Some address/memory APIs have different type between
> 'hwaddr/target_ulong addr' and 'int len'. It is very unsafety, espcially
> some APIs will be passed a non-int len by caller which might cause
> overflow quietly.
> Below is an potential overflow case:
>     dma_memory_read(uint32_t len)
>       -> dma_memory_rw(uint32_t len)
>         -> dma_memory_rw_relaxed(uint32_t len)
>           -> address_space_rw(int len) # len overflow
> 
> CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> CC: Peter Crosthwaite <crosthwaite.peter@gmail.com>
> CC: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
> CC: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> ---
> V3: use the same type between len and addr(Peter Maydell)
>     rebase code basing on https://patchew.org/QEMU/20181122133507.30950-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org/
> ---
>  exec.c                    | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  include/exec/cpu-all.h    |  2 +-
>  include/exec/cpu-common.h |  8 ++++----
>  include/exec/memory.h     | 22 +++++++++++-----------
>  4 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>


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