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Re: [Qemu-devel] [4710] Prevent guest reusing host memory allocations.
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Laurent Desnogues |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [4710] Prevent guest reusing host memory allocations. |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:40:55 +0200 |
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Laurent Desnogues
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Paul Brook <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Modified: trunk/exec.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- trunk/exec.c 2008-06-09 12:10:22 UTC (rev 4709)
>> +++ trunk/exec.c 2008-06-09 13:47:45 UTC (rev 4710)
>> @@ -263,13 +263,33 @@
> [...]
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_USER_ONLY)
>> + unsigned long addr;
>> + size_t len = sizeof(PageDesc) * L2_SIZE;
>> + /* Don't use qemu_malloc because it may recurse. */
>> + p = mmap(0, len, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
>> + MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
>> *lp = p;
>> + addr = h2g(p);
>> + if (addr == (target_ulong)addr) {
>> + page_set_flags(addr & TARGET_PAGE_MASK,
>> + TARGET_PAGE_ALIGN(addr + len),
>> + PAGE_RESERVED);
>> + }
>
> I don't understand what the test is supposed to do, to me it looks
> like it can't fail since we have:
>
> #define h2g(x) ((target_ulong)(x - GUEST_BASE))
>
> Did I miss something?
I guess addr = h2g(p); should be replaced with
addr = (unsigned long)p;
BTW this makes me think that perhaps GUEST_BASE should
be used here and if that's true in some other places as well
(qemu_vmalloc for instance).
These are all *wild guesses* from someone who doesn't fully
understand qemu...
Laurent