Re: [PATCH net 0/4] Fix various issue of vhost

[Jason Wang]

On 2018/12/11 äå3:47, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:44:50 +0800
>
> > This series tries to fix various issues of vhost:
> >
> > - Patch 1 adds a missing write barrier between used idx updating and
> >    logging.
> > - Patch 2-3 brings back the protection of device IOTLB through vq
> >    mutex, this fixes possible use after free in device IOTLB entries.
> > - Patch 4 fixes the diry page logging when device IOTLB is
> >    enabled. We should done through GPA instead of GIOVA, this was done
> >    through logging through iovec and traversing GPA->HPA list for the
> >    GPA.
> >
> > Please consider them for -stable.
> Looks like the kbuild robot found some problems.
>
> ->used is a pointer (which might be 32-bit) and you're casting it to
> a u64 in the translate_desc() calls of patch #4.
>
> Please make sure that you don't actually require the full domain of
> a u64 in these values, as obviously if vq->used is a pointer you will
> only get a 32-bit domain on 32-bit architectures.


It seems the reason is that I cast from plain void pointer directly. Let 
me cast it to uintptr_t first.

Thanks


>