Le 17/11/2025 à 13:46, Jan Beulich a écrit :
> On 17.11.2025 13:35, Teddy Astie wrote:
>> A 4K page appears to be able to hold 128 ioreq entries, which luckly
>> matches the current vCPU limit. However, if we decide to increase the
>> domain vCPU limit, that doesn't hold anymore and this function would now
>> silently create a out of bounds pointer leading to confusing problems.
>>
>> All architectures with ioreq support don't support 128 vCPU limit for
>> HVM guests, and  have pages that are at least 4 KB large, so this case
>> doesn't occurs in with the current limits.
>>
>> For the time being, make sure we can't make a Xen build that can
>> accidentally make a out of bounds pointers here.
>>
>> No functional change.
>>
>> Reported-by: Julian Vetter <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Teddy Astie <[email protected]>
>
> I was meaning to ack this, but ...
>
>> --- a/xen/common/ioreq.c
>> +++ b/xen/common/ioreq.c
>> @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ static ioreq_t *get_ioreq(struct ioreq_server *s, struct 
>> vcpu *v)
>>
>>       ASSERT((v == current) || !vcpu_runnable(v));
>>       ASSERT(p != NULL);
>> +    BUILD_BUG_ON(HVM_MAX_VCPUS > (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct ioreq)));
>
> ... does this even build on e.g. Arm? IOREQ_SERVER is a setting which can be
> enabled (with EXPERT=y) also for non-x86. Yet HVM_MAX_VCPUS looks to be an
> x86-only thing. (I then also wonder about some of what the description says).
>
> Just to mention (no further change requested at this point, in this regard):
> HVM_MAX_VCPUS being part of the public interface, we'll need to see whether we
> can sensibly retain that identifier to carry changed meaning once we up the
> limit. The check here may therefore not trigger at that point; the hope then
> is that while making respective changes, people would at least stumble across
> it by e.g. seeing it in grep output.
>

Apparently it doesn't build (debian-bookworm-gcc-arm32-randconfig
catched it).
ARM does provide MAX_VIRT_CPUS and GUEST_MAX_VCPUS which is 128 or
lower, but that doesn't map (or not properly) with what we have in x86
(MAX_VIRT_CPUS=8192 is PV-specific, and GUEST_MAX_VCPUS doesn't exist).

I am not sure what to do, looks like many things are redundant here.

> Jan



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