On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:19:04AM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 06:41:28PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> > Direct mapped domain has already the memory allocated 1:1, so we are
> > directly using the gfn as mfn to map the RAM in the guest.
> > 
> > While we are validating that the page associated to the first mfn belongs to
> > the domain, the subsequent MFN are not validated when the extent_order
> > is > 0.
> > 
> > This may result to map memory region (MMIO, RAM) which doesn't belong to the
> > domain.
> > 
> > Although, only DOM0 on ARM is using a direct memory mapped. So it
> > doesn't affect any guest (at least on the upstream version) or even x86.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@citrix.com>
> > 
> > ---
> > Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com>
> > Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
> > Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
> > Cc: Keir Fraser <k...@xen.org>
> > Cc: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org>
> > 
> >     This patch is a candidate for Xen 4.6 and backport to Xen 4.5 (and
> >     maybe 4.4).
> > 
> 
> Fine by me in principle for this patch to go in 4.6.

I shall do this in a formal way.

Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>

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