Re: [Stable-8.1.1 11/34] softmmu: Assert data in bounds in iotlb_to_section

[Michael Tokarev]

20.09.2023 18:04, Alex Bennée wrote:
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> Sorry my previous reply was eaten by my MUA.

That happens.. especially when MUA becomes hungry :)

> The main purpose of the asserts is to catch corruption to the Memory
> Regions early so we don't see weird failures later on (c.f. the 3
> separate bugs for crashes in slightly different places).
>
> IOW is we are crashing on the asserts in this patch but it's booting
> without it we are just getting lucky.

Thank you very much for this summary. Yeah, this confirms my thought,
but I wanted to be sure.  I left it in.

/mjt