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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ide: avoid unbounded recursion
@ 2017-01-12 10:51 Paolo Bonzini
  2017-01-12 14:11 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
  2017-01-12 15:54 ` John Snow
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Paolo Bonzini @ 2017-01-12 10:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: Peter Lieven, John Snow

The end_transfer_func can call ide_transfer_start immediately, before
returning, and unbounded recursion can happen at least for
ide_atapi_cmd_reply_end.  Use a bottom half to defer the call and
limit stack usage.

Cc: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Cc: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 hw/ide/core.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/ide/core.c b/hw/ide/core.c
index 43709e5..7b9831f 100644
--- a/hw/ide/core.c
+++ b/hw/ide/core.c
@@ -482,6 +482,13 @@ static void ide_clear_retry(IDEState *s)
     s->bus->retry_nsector = 0;
 }
 
+static void ide_start_transfer_bh_cb(void *opaque)
+{
+    IDEDMA *dma = opaque;
+
+    dma->ops->start_transfer(dma);
+}
+
 /* prepare data transfer and tell what to do after */
 void ide_transfer_start(IDEState *s, uint8_t *buf, int size,
                         EndTransferFunc *end_transfer_func)
@@ -494,7 +501,12 @@ void ide_transfer_start(IDEState *s, uint8_t *buf, int size,
         s->status |= DRQ_STAT;
     }
     if (s->bus->dma->ops->start_transfer) {
-        s->bus->dma->ops->start_transfer(s->bus->dma);
+        /* There can be unbounded recursion between ops->start_transfer
+         * and end_transfer_func, so defer to a bottom half.
+         */
+        aio_bh_schedule_oneshot(qemu_get_aio_context(),
+                                ide_start_transfer_bh_cb,
+                                s->bus->dma);
     }
 }
 
-- 
2.9.3

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2017-01-12 17:07     ` Paolo Bonzini
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