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Re: [PATCH] vpci/msix: restore PBA access length and alignment restrictions


  • To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:51:18 +0200
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On 29.03.2023 12:18, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> Accesses to the PBA array have the same length and alignment
> limitations as accesses to the MSI-X table:
> 
> "For all accesses to MSI-X Table and MSI-X PBA fields, software must
> use aligned full DWORD or aligned full QWORD transactions; otherwise,
> the result is undefined."
> 
> Introduce such length and alignment checks into the handling of PBA
> accesses for vPCI.  This was a mistake of mine for not reading the
> specification correctly.
> 
> Note that accesses must now be aligned, and hence there's no longer a
> need to check that the end of the access falls into the PBA region as
> both the access and the region addresses must be aligned.
> 
> Fixes: b177892d2d ('vpci/msix: handle accesses adjacent to the MSI-X table')
> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

And thanks for taking care of this so quickly.

Jan



 


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