From: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
To: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [XEN PATCH] hvmloader: Fix reading ACPI PM1 CNT value
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 10:10:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200701091031.GC2030@perard.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200701075257.GM735@Air-de-Roger>
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 09:52:57AM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:09:13PM +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > In order to get the CNT value from QEMU, we were supposed to read a
> > word, according to the implementation in QEMU. But it has been lax and
> > allowed to read a single byte. This has changed with commit
> > 5d971f9e6725 ("memory: Revert "memory: accept mismatching sizes in
> > memory_region_access_valid"") and result in hvmloader crashing on
> > the BUG_ON.
>
> This is a bug on the QEMU side, the ACPI spec states: "Accesses to PM1
> control registers are accessed through byte and word accesses.".
> That's on section 4.8.3.2.1 PM1 Control Registers of my copy of the
> ACPI spec (6.2A).
I guess we can ignore this patch then, and I should write a patch for
QEMU instead.
> I'm fine with this if such bogus behavior has made it's way into a
> release version of QEMU, but it needs to state it's a workaround for a
> QEMU bug, not a bug in hvmloader.
It hasn't, but might.
> IMO the QEMU change should be reverted.
The change can't be reverted, it is to fix a CVE and isn't related to
ACPI. But we can fix the emulator.
> Thanks, Roger.
Thanks,
--
Anthony PERARD
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-30 17:09 [XEN PATCH] hvmloader: Fix reading ACPI PM1 CNT value Anthony PERARD
2020-07-01 7:52 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-07-01 9:10 ` Anthony PERARD [this message]
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