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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix off-by-1 error in RAM migration code
From: |
David Gibson |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix off-by-1 error in RAM migration code |
Date: |
Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:15:08 +1100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 01:08:16PM +0200, Orit Wasserman wrote:
> On 10/31/2012 05:43 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> > The code for migrating (or savevm-ing) memory pages starts off by creating
> > a dirty bitmap and filling it with 1s. Except, actually, because bit
> > addresses are 0-based it fills every bit except bit 0 with 1s and puts an
> > extra 1 beyond the end of the bitmap, potentially corrupting unrelated
> > memory. Oops. This patch fixes it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > arch_init.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch_init.c b/arch_init.c
> > index e6effe8..b75a4c5 100644
> > --- a/arch_init.c
> > +++ b/arch_init.c
> > @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static int ram_save_setup(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque)
> > int64_t ram_pages = last_ram_offset() >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS;
> >
> > migration_bitmap = bitmap_new(ram_pages);
> > - bitmap_set(migration_bitmap, 1, ram_pages);
> > + bitmap_set(migration_bitmap, 0, ram_pages);
> > migration_dirty_pages = ram_pages;
> >
> > bytes_transferred = 0;
> >
> You are correct, good catch.
> Reviewed-by: Orit Wasserman <address@hidden>
Juan,
Sorry, forgot to CC you on the original mailing here, which I should
have done. This is a serious bug in the migration code and we should
apply to mainline ASAP.
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