Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11] hw/misc/ivshmem: Fix ivshmem_recv_msg() to also work on big endian systems

["Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>]

Hi

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:43 PM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:

> The "slow" ivshmem-tests currently fail when they are running on a
> big endian host:
>
> $ uname -m
> ppc64
> $ V=1 QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64
> tests/ivshmem-test -m slow
> /x86_64/ivshmem/single: OK
> /x86_64/ivshmem/hotplug: OK
> /x86_64/ivshmem/memdev: OK
> /x86_64/ivshmem/pair: OK
> /x86_64/ivshmem/server-msi: qemu-system-x86_64:
>  -device ivshmem-doorbell,chardev=chr0,vectors=2: server sent invalid ID
> message
> Broken pipe
>
> The problem is that the server side code in ivshmem_server_send_one_msg()
> correctly translates all messages IDs into little endian 64-bit values,
> but the client side code in the ivshmem_recv_msg() function does not swap
> the byte order back. Fix it by passing the value through le64_to_cpu().
>
>
ivshmem_read() is correct though

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>

 Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>

---
>  hw/misc/ivshmem.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/misc/ivshmem.c b/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
> index 47a015f..b3ef3ec 100644
> --- a/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
> +++ b/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
> @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ static int64_t ivshmem_recv_msg(IVShmemState *s, int
> *pfd, Error **errp)
>      } while (n < sizeof(msg));
>
>      *pfd = qemu_chr_fe_get_msgfd(&s->server_chr);
> -    return msg;
> +    return le64_to_cpu(msg);
>  }
>
>  static void ivshmem_recv_setup(IVShmemState *s, Error **errp)
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
>
> --
Marc-André Lureau