netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/4] Fix various issue of vhost

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Date:   Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:47:02 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jasowang@...hat.com
Cc:     mst@...hat.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/4] Fix various issue of vhost

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:44:50 +0800

> This series tries to fix various issues of vhost:
> 
> - Patch 1 adds a missing write barrier between used idx updating and
>   logging.
> - Patch 2-3 brings back the protection of device IOTLB through vq
>   mutex, this fixes possible use after free in device IOTLB entries.
> - Patch 4 fixes the diry page logging when device IOTLB is
>   enabled. We should done through GPA instead of GIOVA, this was done
>   through logging through iovec and traversing GPA->HPA list for the
>   GPA.
> 
> Please consider them for -stable.

Looks like the kbuild robot found some problems.

->used is a pointer (which might be 32-bit) and you're casting it to
a u64 in the translate_desc() calls of patch #4.

Please make sure that you don't actually require the full domain of
a u64 in these values, as obviously if vq->used is a pointer you will
only get a 32-bit domain on 32-bit architectures.