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

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Message-ID: <cb539329-170c-c297-eb6e-3921852f1d1f@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:01:27 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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


On 2018/12/11 上午3:47, David Miller wrote:
> 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.


It seems the reason is that I cast from plain void pointer directly. Let 
me cast it to uintptr_t first.

Thanks


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