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authorPrasad J Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org>2020-05-26 16:47:43 +0530
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-06-10 12:10:50 -0400
commit77f55eac6c433e23e82a1b88b2d74f385c4c7d82 (patch)
treef0a31aa10d21136397cee350fe1c56006a5d20f3 /include/exec
parentf2dfe54c74f768a5bf78c9e5918918727f9d9459 (diff)
exec: set map length to zero when returning NULL
When mapping physical memory into host's virtual address space, 'address_space_map' may return NULL if BounceBuffer is in_use. Set and return '*plen = 0' to avoid later NULL pointer dereference. Reported-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu> Fixes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1878259 Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Prasad J Pandit <pjp@fedoraproject.org> Message-Id: <20200526111743.428367-1-ppandit@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/exec')
-rw-r--r--include/exec/memory.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/exec/memory.h b/include/exec/memory.h
index bd7fdd6081..af8ca7824e 100644
--- a/include/exec/memory.h
+++ b/include/exec/memory.h
@@ -2314,7 +2314,8 @@ bool address_space_access_valid(AddressSpace *as, hwaddr addr, hwaddr len,
/* address_space_map: map a physical memory region into a host virtual address
*
* May map a subset of the requested range, given by and returned in @plen.
- * May return %NULL if resources needed to perform the mapping are exhausted.
+ * May return %NULL and set *@plen to zero(0), if resources needed to perform
+ * the mapping are exhausted.
* Use only for reads OR writes - not for read-modify-write operations.
* Use cpu_register_map_client() to know when retrying the map operation is
* likely to succeed.