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authorThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>2023-02-08 15:01:03 +0100
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2023-03-16 10:18:06 -0400
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KVM: arm64: Limit length in kvm_vm_ioctl_mte_copy_tags() to INT_MAX
In case of success, this function returns the amount of handled bytes. However, this does not work for large values: The function is called from kvm_arch_vm_ioctl() (which still returns a long), which in turn is called from kvm_vm_ioctl() in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c. And that function stores the return value in an "int r" variable. So the upper 32-bits of the "long" return value are lost there. KVM ioctl functions should only return "int" values, so let's limit the amount of bytes that can be requested here to INT_MAX to avoid the problem with the truncated return value. We can then also change the return type of the function to "int" to make it clearer that it is not possible to return a "long" here. Fixes: f0376edb1ddc ("KVM: arm64: Add ioctl to fetch/store tags in a guest") Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Message-Id: <20230208140105.655814-5-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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@@ -5645,7 +5645,8 @@ with the KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR ioctl.
};
Copies Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) tags to/from guest tag memory. The
-``guest_ipa`` and ``length`` fields must be ``PAGE_SIZE`` aligned. The ``addr``
+``guest_ipa`` and ``length`` fields must be ``PAGE_SIZE`` aligned.
+``length`` must not be bigger than 2^31 - PAGE_SIZE bytes. The ``addr``
field must point to a buffer which the tags will be copied to or from.
``flags`` specifies the direction of copy, either ``KVM_ARM_TAGS_TO_GUEST`` or