Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.1] user-exec.c: Don't assert on segfaults for non-valid addresses

[Anthony Liguori]

On 05/03/2012 01:32 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> h2g() will assert if passed an address that's not a valid guest address,
> so handle_cpu_signal() needs to check before passing "data address
> which caused a segfault" to it, since for a misbehaving guest
> that could be anything. If the address isn't a valid guest address
> then we can simply skip the attempt to unprotect a guest page
> which was made read-only to catch self-modifying code.
>
> This assertion probably fires more readily now than it used to
> do because of recent changes to default to reserving guest address
> space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell<address@hidden>

Applied.  Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> ---
> I've tentatively marked this as for-1.1 as it's pretty safe, although
> it doesn't buy you a great deal: misbehaving guest binaries will
> die cleanly with a segfault rather than qemu asserting and then
> locking up (assert() in qemu's linux-user code doesn't really behave
> very nicely...)
>
>   user-exec.c |    3 ++-
>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/user-exec.c b/user-exec.c
> index be6bc4f..d8c2ad9 100644
> --- a/user-exec.c
> +++ b/user-exec.c
> @@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ static inline int handle_cpu_signal(uintptr_t pc, unsigned 
> long address,
>                   pc, address, is_write, *(unsigned long *)old_set);
>   #endif
>       /* XXX: locking issue */
> -    if (is_write&&  page_unprotect(h2g(address), pc, puc)) {
> +    if (is_write&&  h2g_valid(address)
> +&&  page_unprotect(h2g(address), pc, puc)) {
>           return 1;
>       }