linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 03/15] KVM: Add build-time error check on kvm

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:34:53 -0500
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>, peterx@...hat.com,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 03/15] KVM: Add build-time error check on kvm_run size

It's already going to reach 2400 Bytes (which is over half of page
size on 4K page archs), so maybe it's good to have this build-time
check in case it overflows when adding new fields.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 8f8940cc4b84..681452d288cd 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -352,6 +352,8 @@ int kvm_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm *kvm, unsigned id)
 	}
 	vcpu->run = page_address(page);
 
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct kvm_run) > PAGE_SIZE);
+
 	kvm_vcpu_set_in_spin_loop(vcpu, false);
 	kvm_vcpu_set_dy_eligible(vcpu, false);
 	vcpu->preempted = false;
-- 
2.21.0