On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 04:14:07PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> RHEL5 i386 guests register non 32-byte aligned addresses:
> 
> kvm-clock: cpu 1, msr 0:3018aa5, secondary cpu clock
> kvm-clock: cpu 2, msr 0:301f8e9, secondary cpu clock
> kvm-clock: cpu 3, msr 0:302672d, secondary cpu clock
> 
> Check for an address+len that would cross page boundary
> instead.
> 
Ugh. Is there guaranty that it will not register a memory region that
crosses page boundary or it is pure luck that this does not happen?

> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index f19ac0a..ad36d386 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -1952,8 +1952,9 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct 
> msr_data *msr_info)
>  
>               gpa_offset = data & ~(PAGE_MASK | 1);
>  
> -             /* Check that the address is 32-byte aligned. */
> -             if (gpa_offset & (sizeof(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info) - 1))
> +             /* Check that address+len does not cross page boundary */
> +             if ((gpa_offset + sizeof(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info) - 1)
> +                 & PAGE_MASK)
>                       break;
>  
>               if (kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init(vcpu->kvm,

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                        Gleb.
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