linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 04/21] KVM: Add build-time error check on kvm

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Date:   Thu,  9 Jan 2020 09:57:12 -0500
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin@...hat.com>,
        "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@...el.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Kevin Kevin <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>, peterx@...hat.com,
        "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 04/21] 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 | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 24c9cf4c8a52..70b78ccaf3b5 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ int kvm_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm *kvm, unsigned id)
 	vcpu->pre_pcpu = -1;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vcpu->blocked_vcpu_list);
 
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct kvm_run) > PAGE_SIZE);
 	page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
 	if (!page) {
 		r = -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.24.1