On 6/16/22 06:55, Yuntao Wang wrote:
> There are two issues in phys_p4d_init():
>
> - The __kernel_physical_mapping_init() does not do boundary-checking for
> paddr_end and passes it directly to phys_p4d_init(), phys_p4d_init() does
> not do bounds checking either, so if the physical memory to be mapped is
> large enough, 'p4d_page + p4d_index(vaddr)' will wrap around to the
> beginning entry of the P4D table and its data will be overwritten.
>
> - The for loop body will be executed only when 'vaddr < vaddr_end'
> evaluates to true, but if that condition is true, 'paddr >= paddr_end'
> will evaluate to false, thus the 'if (paddr >= paddr_end) {}' block will
> never be executed and become dead code.
Could you explain a bit how you found this? Was this encountered in
practice and debugged or was it found by inspection?
