On 08/03/2017 12:17, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > On 03/08/2017 12:11 PM, Yang Zhong wrote: >> Since cpu-memory and memory have same address space,one malloced >> memory is enough. This patch will skip memory malloc for memory >> address space,which will reduce around 3M physical memory in heap. >> >> Signed-off-by: Yang Zhong <yang.zh...@intel.com> > > Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> > >> --- >> memory.c | 6 ++++-- >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/memory.c b/memory.c >> index 284894b..799ca4c 100644 >> --- a/memory.c >> +++ b/memory.c >> @@ -2422,8 +2422,10 @@ AddressSpace >> *address_space_init_shareable(MemoryRegion *root, const char *name) >> AddressSpace *as; >> >> QTAILQ_FOREACH(as, &address_spaces, address_spaces_link) { >> - if (root == as->root && as->malloced) { >> - as->ref_count++; >> + if (root == as->root) { >> + if (as->malloced) { >> + as->ref_count++; >> + } >> return as; >> } >> } >>
This is wrong. If as->malloced is false, the AddressSpace might be embedded in another struct. This other struct could be freed when as->ref_count is still greater than 0, causing a use-after-free bug. Paolo