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-rw-r--r--linux-user/elfload.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/linux-user/elfload.c b/linux-user/elfload.c
index 653157876c..8699f430b1 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)) {