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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
	Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>,
	qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/28] s390x/tcg: MVCL: Process max 2k bytes at a time
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:12:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2eb8313-cd97-ce92-7108-e6256a98d6e9@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <905250c7-b249-6812-391c-408af69d9523@linaro.org>

On 11.09.19 17:07, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 9/11/19 10:52 AM, Richard Henderson wrote:
>> The code within Hercules breaks the action at every 2k address boundary -- for
>> both src and dest.  That's the only way that actually makes sense to me, as
>> otherwise we end up allowing userspace to read/write into a page without
>> permission.  Which is a security hole.
> 
> Also, doesn't "2k" come from the old esa/360 page size?

I have no idea, I was very confused with that.

> 
> Which means that we could break at 4k pages instead of 2k now
> and the program wouldn't really be able to tell the difference.

What I had in a previous iteration was to simply process until the end
of the page(s), to not cross pages (there is one special case with 2k
vs. 4k when crossing pages when wrapping and running into a
low-address-protection). So essentially what you suggest. I can add that.

-- 

Thanks,

David / dhildenb


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-11 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-06  7:57 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/28] s390x/tcg: mem_helper: Fault-safe handling David Hildenbrand
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/28] s390x/tcg: Reset exception_index to -1 instead of 0 David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 14:38   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/28] s390x/tcg: MVCL: Zero out unused bits of address David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 14:40   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-11 16:10     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/28] s390x/tcg: MVCL: Detect destructive overlaps David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 14:42   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/28] s390x/tcg: MVCL: Process max 2k bytes at a time David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 14:52   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-11 15:07     ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-11 16:12       ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/28] s390x/tcg: MVC: Increment the length once David Hildenbrand
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/28] s390x/tcg: MVC: Use is_destructive_overlap() David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 14:54   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-11 16:13     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/28] s390x/tcg: MVPG: Check for specification exceptions David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 14:57   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/28] s390x/tcg: MVPG: Properly wrap the addresses David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 14:58   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/28] s390x/tcg: MVCLU/MVCLE: Process max 4k bytes at a time David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 15:05   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-11 16:14     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/28] s390x/tcg: MVCS/MVCP: Check for special operation exceptions David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 15:08   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/28] s390x/tcg: MVCS/MVCP: Properly wrap the length David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 15:11   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-11 16:15     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 12/28] s390x/tcg: MVST: Check for specification exceptions David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 15:14   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 13/28] s390x/tcg: MVST: Fix storing back the addresses to registers David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 15:18   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-11 16:15     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 14/28] s390x/tcg: Always use MMU_USER_IDX for CONFIG_USER_ONLY David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 15:19   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 15/28] s390x/tcg: Fault-safe memset David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 15:29   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-11 16:18     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 16/28] s390x/tcg: Fault-safe memmove David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 21:11   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-11 22:03   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-13 12:37     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 17/28] s390x/tcg: MVCS/MVCP: Use access_memmove_idx() David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 21:13   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 18/28] s390x/tcg: MVC: Fault-safe handling on destructive overlaps David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 21:20   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 19/28] s390x/tcg: MVCLU: Fault-safe handling David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 21:24   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 20/28] s390x/tcg: OC: " David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 21:26   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-16 12:01     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 21/28] s390x/tcg: XC: " David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 21:29   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 22/28] s390x/tcg: NC: " David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 21:32   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 23/28] s390x/tcg: MVCIN: " David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 21:35   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 24/28] s390x/tcg: MVN: " David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 21:37   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 25/28] s390x/tcg: MVZ: " David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 21:38   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 26/28] s390x/tcg: MVST: " David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 21:52   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-16 10:39     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 27/28] s390x/tcg: MVO: " David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 22:09   ` Richard Henderson
2019-09-06  7:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 28/28] tests/tcg: target/s390x: Test MVO David Hildenbrand
2019-09-11 11:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v2 00/28] s390x/tcg: mem_helper: Fault-safe handling David Hildenbrand

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