On 02/18/2015 10:52 AM, Julien Grall wrote:
Hi Boris,
On 18/02/2015 15:39, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
If invalid pointer (i.e. something smaller than HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START)
is passed for %*ph/%pv/%ps/%pS format specifiers then print value of the
pointer in parentheses.
For example:
struct vcpu *v0 = NULL;
struct vcpu *v1 = (void *)0xffUL;
unsigned val = 0xab;
unsigned *ptr = &val;
unsigned *badptr = (void *)0xab;
printk("v0 = %pv, v1 = %pv, curr = %pv\n", v0, v1, current);
printk("badptr = %*ph, ptr = %*ph\n", 1, badptr, 1, ptr);
will produce
v0 = (0), v1 = (ff), curr = d0v3
badptr = (ab), ptr = ab
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com>
---
xen/common/vsprintf.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
v3:
* Print value of the bad pointer in parentheses.
(I understand Andrew's dislike of additional switch but I
think this is the cleanest way)
v2:
* Print "(NULL)" instead of specifier-specific string
* Consider all addresses under HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START as invalid. (I
think
this is true for both x86 and ARM but I don't have ARM platform
to test).
This assumption is valid on ARM too. Although, we may have some
mappings after HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START why are not valid.
On ARM, HYPERVISOR_VIRT_END marks the end of mapping which is not
always mapped (such as the domheap). Would it make sense to test it?
Although it seems that x86 doesn't have the same meaning for this macro.
This patch is only trying to avoid obviously bad pointers but it doesn't
guarantee that a pointer that's not below HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START is good
(e.g. if you try to print %pv for HYPERVISOR_VIRT_START bad things will
likely happen).
Since there are cases when we want to dereference something above
HYPERVISOR_VIRT_END I think adding more tests would make things a bit
more complicated: we will just keep adding more tests.
I don't know if there is a good solution short of testing "goodness" of
each pointer (regardless of where it points).
-boris
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