[Lguest] [PATCH 2/8] lguest: fix descriptor corruption in example launcher
Rusty Russell
rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Thu Jul 23 23:44:55 EST 2009
1d589bb16b825b3a7b4edd34d997f1f1f953033d "Add serial number support
for virtio_blk, V4a" extended 'struct virtio_blk_config' to 536 bytes.
Lguest and S/390 both use an 8 bit value for the feature length, and
this change broke them (if the code is naive).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: John Cooper <john.cooper at redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>
---
Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
@@ -1105,6 +1105,9 @@ static void set_config(struct device *de
/* Copy in the config information, and store the length. */
memcpy(device_config(dev), conf, len);
dev->desc->config_len = len;
+
+ /* Size must fit in config_len field (8 bits)! */
+ assert(dev->desc->config_len == len);
}
/* This routine does all the creation and setup of a new device, including
@@ -1515,7 +1518,8 @@ static void setup_block_file(const char
add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SEG_MAX);
conf.seg_max = cpu_to_le32(VIRTQUEUE_NUM - 2);
- set_config(dev, sizeof(conf), &conf);
+ /* Don't try to put whole struct: we have 8 bit limit. */
+ set_config(dev, offsetof(struct virtio_blk_config, geometry), &conf);
verbose("device %u: virtblock %llu sectors\n",
++devices.device_num, le64_to_cpu(conf.capacity));
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