Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr-vscsi: Adding VSCSI capabilities

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 15:37 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> There are certainly cases where time-of-check-to-time-of-use
> vulnerability could make QEMU access uninitialized memory (or worse,
> out-of-bounds arrays).  For example, you could try racing the host on
> the length of a scatter/gather list.

Sure, and I mentioned that too, the latest patch from Nikunj addresses
it, I still think however that it's not a good practice to copy
everything, then do the byteswaps on the result (and it defeats use of
sparse for endian checking if we ever want to do that).

Ben.