Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] KVM: selftests: Test pmu event filter with incompatible kvm_pmu_event_filter

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu May 25 2023 - 11:55:37 EST


On Thu, May 25, 2023, Jinrong Liang wrote:
> Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> 于2023年5月25日周四 07:50写道:
> > > +static uint64_t test_incompatible_filter(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, uint32_t action,
> > > + uint32_t bitmap)
> > > +{
> > > + struct incompatible_pmu_event_filter err_f;
> > > +
> > > + err_f.action = action;
> > > + err_f.fixed_counter_bitmap = bitmap;
> > > + ioctl((vcpu->vm)->fd, KVM_SET_PMU_EVENT_FILTER, &err_f.action);
> >
> > This is completely busted. It "passes" by luck, not because it's a valid test.
> > The size of the argument is embedded in the IOCTL number itself, which means that
> > unless glibc is being very nice and using a macro + typeof + sizeof to sanity check
> > things, which I highly doubt is the case, this ioctl() is passing random stack data,
> > a.k.a. garbage, to KVM.
> >
> > In short, drop this patch.
>
> Thank you for letting us know about the issues with the patch. I will
> drop the patch as suggested. Would you advise me to prepare version 3
> to remove this patch?

More comments on the other patches are incoming, please hold off on v3 until then.