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| author | Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@parabola.nu> | 2017-12-28 13:08:09 -0500 |
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| committer | Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> | 2018-03-09 21:29:49 +0100 |
| commit | 955e304f6fc1703edafed69b299a8ca39233f865 (patch) | |
| tree | 1eb2853e8c1160cc053d7dbebb3f071a6ce4ff9b /linux-user | |
| parent | 293f20600896d18c05880fb003f08d281b3156cb (diff) | |
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linux-user: init_guest_commpage: Add a comment about size check
Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@parabola.nu>
Message-Id: <20171228180814.9749-7-lukeshu@lukeshu.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'linux-user')
| -rw-r--r-- | linux-user/elfload.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/linux-user/elfload.c b/linux-user/elfload.c index 6531578..8699f43 100644 --- a/linux-user/elfload.c +++ b/linux-user/elfload.c @@ -374,6 +374,11 @@ static int init_guest_commpage(unsigned long guest_base, /* If the commpage lies within the already allocated guest space, * then there is no way we can allocate it. + * + * You may be thinking that that this check is redundant because + * we already validated the guest size against MAX_RESERVED_VA; + * but if qemu_host_page_mask is unusually large, then + * test_page_addr may be lower. */ if (test_page_addr >= guest_base && test_page_addr < (guest_base + guest_size)) { |