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[v2,06/13] exec: Relax range check in ram_block_discard_range()

Message ID 20200221164204.105570-7-david@redhat.com
State New
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Series migrate/ram: Fix resizing RAM blocks while migrating | expand

Commit Message

David Hildenbrand Feb. 21, 2020, 4:41 p.m. UTC
We want to make use of ram_block_discard_range() in the RAM block resize
callback when growing a RAM block, *before* used_length is changed.
Let's relax the check. We always have a reserved mapping for the whole
max_length, so we cannot corrupt unrelated data.

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
 exec.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Peter Xu Feb. 24, 2020, 10:27 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 05:41:57PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> We want to make use of ram_block_discard_range() in the RAM block resize
> callback when growing a RAM block, *before* used_length is changed.
> Let's relax the check. We always have a reserved mapping for the whole
> max_length, so we cannot corrupt unrelated data.
> 
> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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Patch

diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
index 8b015821d6..8737acedab 100644
--- a/exec.c
+++ b/exec.c
@@ -3915,7 +3915,7 @@  int ram_block_discard_range(RAMBlock *rb, uint64_t start, size_t length)
         goto err;
     }
 
-    if ((start + length) <= rb->used_length) {
+    if ((start + length) <= rb->max_length) {
         bool need_madvise, need_fallocate;
         if (!QEMU_IS_ALIGNED(length, rb->page_size)) {
             error_report("ram_block_discard_range: Unaligned length: %zx",
@@ -3982,7 +3982,7 @@  int ram_block_discard_range(RAMBlock *rb, uint64_t start, size_t length)
     } else {
         error_report("ram_block_discard_range: Overrun block '%s' (%" PRIu64
                      "/%zx/" RAM_ADDR_FMT")",
-                     rb->idstr, start, length, rb->used_length);
+                     rb->idstr, start, length, rb->max_length);
     }
 
 err: