Without doing so we could trigger the ASSERT_UNREACHABLE() in subpage_mmio_write_emulate(). A comment there actually says this validation would already have been done ...
Fixes: 8847d6e23f97 ("x86/mm: add API for marking only part of a MMIO page read only") Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> --- v2: Emit a warning message otherwise. --- a/xen/arch/x86/mm.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm.c @@ -5195,8 +5195,13 @@ int cf_check mmio_ro_emulated_write( return X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE; } - subpage_mmio_write_emulate(mmio_ro_ctxt->mfn, PAGE_OFFSET(offset), - p_data, bytes); + if ( bytes <= 8 ) + subpage_mmio_write_emulate(mmio_ro_ctxt->mfn, PAGE_OFFSET(offset), + p_data, bytes); + else if ( subpage_mmio_find_page(mmio_ro_ctxt->mfn) ) + gprintk(XENLOG_WARNING, + "unsupported %u-byte write to R/O MMIO 0x%"PRI_mfn"%03lx\n", + bytes, mfn_x(mmio_ro_ctxt->mfn), PAGE_OFFSET(offset)); return X86EMUL_OKAY; }