On 13/12/2017 04:05, Wanpeng Li wrote: > 2017-12-13 0:07 GMT+08:00 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 12/12/2017 09:57, Wanpeng Li wrote: >>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c >>> index bc5d853..51e7932 100644 >>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c >>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c >>> @@ -4690,7 +4690,10 @@ static int write_emulate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, >>> >>> static int write_mmio(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, int bytes, void *val) >>> { >>> - trace_kvm_mmio(KVM_TRACE_MMIO_WRITE, bytes, gpa, *(u64 *)val); >>> + u64 data = 0; >>> + >>> + memcpy(&data, val, min(8, bytes)); >>> + trace_kvm_mmio(KVM_TRACE_MMIO_WRITE, bytes, gpa, data); >>> return vcpu_mmio_write(vcpu, gpa, bytes, val); >>> } >>> >>> >> >> Please do the memcpy in TRACE_EVENT(kvm_mmio)'s TP_fast_assign block. >> That is done only when the trace event is active. > > I still can observe the stack out-of-bounds read warning if keep *(u64 > *)val as the parameter since it has already been dereferenced. So > maybe we should change the parameter of trace_kvm_mmio() to void *val, Yes, exactly. > however, I'm not sure whether it will break the tracepoint ABI which > this article https://lwn.net/Articles/734039/ "Workload analysis with > tracing" section pointed out. No, the tracepoint ABI refers to TP_PROTO, not TP_STRUCT and TP_fast_assign. Good that you thought about it, though! Thanks, Paolo