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    ide: Correct handling of malformed/short PRDTs · 3251bdcf
    John Snow authored
    
    
    This impacts both BMDMA and AHCI HBA interfaces for IDE.
    Currently, we confuse the difference between a PRDT having
    "0 bytes" and a PRDT having "0 complete sectors."
    
    When we receive an incomplete sector, inconsistent error checking
    leads to an infinite loop wherein the call succeeds, but it
    didn't give us enough bytes -- leading us to re-call the
    DMA chain over and over again. This leads to, in the BMDMA case,
    leaked memory for short PRDTs, and infinite loops and resource
    usage in the AHCI case.
    
    The .prepare_buf() callback is reworked to return the number of
    bytes that it successfully prepared. 0 is a valid, non-error
    answer that means the table was empty and described no bytes.
    -1 indicates an error.
    
    Our current implementation uses the io_buffer in IDEState to
    ultimately describe the size of a prepared scatter-gather list.
    Even though the AHCI PRDT/SGList can be as large as 256GiB, the
    AHCI command header limits transactions to just 4GiB. ATA8-ACS3,
    however, defines the largest transaction to be an LBA48 command
    that transfers 65,536 sectors. With a 512 byte sector size, this
    is just 32MiB.
    
    Since our current state structures use the int type to describe
    the size of the buffer, and this state is migrated as int32, we
    are limited to describing 2GiB buffer sizes unless we change the
    migration protocol.
    
    For this reason, this patch begins to unify the assertions in the
    IDE pathways that the scatter-gather list provided by either the
    AHCI PRDT or the PCI BMDMA PRDs can only describe, at a maximum,
    2GiB. This should be resilient enough unless we need a sector
    size that exceeds 32KiB.
    
    Further, the likelihood of any guest operating system actually
    attempting to transfer this much data in a single operation is
    very slim.
    
    To this end, the IDEState variables have been updated to more
    explicitly clarify our maximum supported size. Callers to the
    prepare_buf callback have been reworked to understand the new
    return code, and all versions of the prepare_buf callback have
    been adjusted accordingly.
    
    Lastly, the ahci_populate_sglist helper, relied upon by the
    AHCI implementation of .prepare_buf() as well as the PCI
    implementation of the callback have had overflow assertions
    added to help make clear the reasonings behind the various
    type changes.
    
    [Added %d -> %"PRId64" fix John sent because off_pos changed from int to
    int64_t.
    --Stefan]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Message-id: 1414785819-26209-4-git-send-email-jsnow@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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