Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio: Strictly check queue_size when adding virtqueue

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:36:02PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:25:33PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> > Qemu should abort when 'queue_size' is less than or equals to zero.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> BTW, these patches apply upstream so should be sent to qemu-devel.
> 
> > ---
> >  hw/virtio.c |    3 ++-
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/virtio.c b/hw/virtio.c
> > index a3d0eee..855fe54 100644
> > --- a/hw/virtio.c
> > +++ b/hw/virtio.c
> > @@ -612,7 +612,8 @@ VirtQueue *virtio_add_queue(VirtIODevice *vdev, int queue_size,
> >              break;
> >      }
> >  
> > -    if (i == VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_MAX || queue_size > VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE)
> > +    if (i == VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_MAX || queue_size > VIRTQUEUE_MAX_SIZE ||
> > +        queue_size <= 0)
> >          abort();
> >  
> >      vdev->vq[i].vring.num = queue_size;
> 
> These checks are just a debugging aid - there's no way
> for the guest or user to trigger this.
> I guess it does no harm, but what are we guarding against?
> Why would anyone pass in a negative value?

It seems all exist usage of this function are all right, guest/user could not trigger this right now.
So we don't need to fix this kind of problem?
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