According to Hyper-V TLFS Version 6.0b, struct hv_message_header members
should be defined in the order:
message_type, _reserved, message_flags, payload_size
but we have it defined in the order:
message_type, payload_size, message_flags, _reserved
that is, the payload_size and _reserved members swapped. Due to this mix
up, we were inadvertently causing two issues:
- The payload_size field has invalid data; it didn't cause an issue
so far because we are delivering only timer messages which has fixed
size payloads the guest probably did a sizeof(payload) instead
relying on the value of payload_size member.
- The message_flags was always delivered as 0 to the guest;
fortunately, according to section 13.3.1 message_flags is also
treated as a reserved field.
Although this is not causing an issue now, it might in future (we are
adding more message types in our VSM implementation) so fix it to
reflect the specification.
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Chandrasekaran <sidcha@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/hw/hyperv/hyperv-proto.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/hw/hyperv/hyperv-proto.h b/include/hw/hyperv/hyperv-proto.h
index 21dc28aee9..f578a60e78 100644
--- a/include/hw/hyperv/hyperv-proto.h
+++ b/include/hw/hyperv/hyperv-proto.h
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ struct hyperv_signal_event_input {
*/
struct hyperv_message_header {
uint32_t message_type;
- uint8_t payload_size;
- uint8_t message_flags; /* HV_MESSAGE_FLAG_XX */
uint8_t _reserved[2];
+ uint8_t message_flags; /* HV_MESSAGE_FLAG_XX */
+ uint8_t payload_size;
uint64_t sender;
};
--
2.17.1
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