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From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: validate userspace input in kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect()
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:49:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190111134955.GE14852@flask> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8418f6c8-0fc8-e22c-c39a-bfcaee7471e2@gmail.com>

2019-01-08 17:28+0100, Tomas Bortoli:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> On 1/7/19 11:42 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 02/01/19 18:29, Tomas Bortoli wrote:
> >>  	n = kvm_dirty_bitmap_bytes(memslot);
> >> +
> >> +	if (n << 3 < log->num_pages || log->first_page > log->num_pages)
> >> +		return -EINVAL;
> >> +
> > 
> > This should be
> > 
> > 	if (log->first_page > memslot->npages ||

(Wouldn't this be clearer with a >= instead?)

> > 	    log->num_pages > memslot->npages - log->first_page)
> > 		return -EINVAL;
> > 
> > i.e. the comparison should check the last page in the range, not the
> > number of pages.  In addition, using "n" is unnecessary since we do have
> > the memslot.  I'll do the changes myself if you prefer, but an ack would
> > be nice.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> Yeah, I agree. Thanks for the reply and sure you can do the changes, np :)

Done that and applied, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-11 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-02 17:29 [PATCH] KVM: validate userspace input in kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect() Tomas Bortoli
2019-01-07 22:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-01-08 16:28   ` Tomas Bortoli
2019-01-11 13:49     ` Radim Krčmář [this message]
2019-01-14  9:10       ` Paolo Bonzini

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