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[PULL,15/18] linux-user: init_guest_commpage: Add a comment about size check

Message ID 20180313173355.4468-16-laurent@vivier.eu
State New
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Series [PULL,01/18] linux-user: Drop unicore32 code | expand

Commit Message

Laurent Vivier March 13, 2018, 5:33 p.m. UTC 
From: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@parabola.nu>

Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@parabola.nu>
Message-Id: <20171228180814.9749-7-lukeshu@lukeshu.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
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 linux-user/elfload.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/linux-user/elfload.c b/linux-user/elfload.c
index 653157876c..8699f430b1 100644
--- a/linux-user/elfload.c
+++ b/linux-user/elfload.c
@@ -374,6 +374,11 @@  static int init_guest_commpage(unsigned long guest_base,
 
     /* If the commpage lies within the already allocated guest space,
      * then there is no way we can allocate it.
+     *
+     * You may be thinking that that this check is redundant because
+     * we already validated the guest size against MAX_RESERVED_VA;
+     * but if qemu_host_page_mask is unusually large, then
+     * test_page_addr may be lower.
      */
     if (test_page_addr >= guest_base
         && test_page_addr < (guest_base + guest_size)) {