Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v2] hw/s390x/ipl: Fix crashes that occurs when -kernel is used with small images

[Cornelia Huck]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:08:43 +0200
Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 11.06.2018 19:26, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > Add a sanity checks to fix the following two crashes:
> > 
> > $ echo "Insane in the mainframe" > /tmp/test.txt
> > $ s390x-softmmu/qemu-system-s390x -kernel /tmp/test.txt -append xyz
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > $ s390x-softmmu/qemu-system-s390x -kernel /tmp/test.txt -initrd 
> > /tmp/test.txt
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  v2: Fixed 2nd crash with -initrd
> > 
> >  hw/s390x/ipl.c | 9 ++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/s390x/ipl.c b/hw/s390x/ipl.c
> > index 04245b5..2ff8f20 100644
> > --- a/hw/s390x/ipl.c
> > +++ b/hw/s390x/ipl.c
> > @@ -168,7 +168,8 @@ static void s390_ipl_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error 
> > **errp)
> >           * we can not rely on the ELF entry point - it was 0x800 (the 
> > SALIPL
> >           * loader) and it won't work. For this case we force it to 
> > 0x10000, too.
> >           */
> > -        if (pentry == KERN_IMAGE_START || pentry == 0x800) {
> > +        if ((pentry == KERN_IMAGE_START || pentry == 0x800) &&
> > +            kernel_size > KERN_PARM_AREA + strlen(ipl->cmdline)) {
> >              ipl->start_addr = KERN_IMAGE_START;
> >              /* Overwrite parameters in the kernel image, which are "rom" */
> >              strcpy(rom_ptr(KERN_PARM_AREA), ipl->cmdline);
> > @@ -195,8 +196,10 @@ static void s390_ipl_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error 
> > **errp)
> >               * we have to overwrite values in the kernel image,
> >               * which are "rom"
> >               */
> > -            stq_p(rom_ptr(INITRD_PARM_START), initrd_offset);
> > -            stq_p(rom_ptr(INITRD_PARM_SIZE), initrd_size);
> > +            if (kernel_size > INITRD_PARM_SIZE + 8) {
> > +                stq_p(rom_ptr(INITRD_PARM_START), initrd_offset);
> > +                stq_p(rom_ptr(INITRD_PARM_SIZE), initrd_size);
> > +            }
> >          }
> >      }
> >      /*  
> 
> I just had to discover that this breaks the argv handling in
> kvm-unit-tests. Cornelia, could you please unqueue this patch again?
> I'll try to come up with a better solution...

Argh. I wonder why?

Unqueued.