Re: [PATCH] KVM: add missing compat KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG

From: Peter Xu
Date: Tue Jul 27 2021 - 11:46:20 EST


On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The arguments to the KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG ioctl include a pointer,
> therefore it needs a compat ioctl implementation. Otherwise,
> 32-bit userspace fails to invoke it on 64-bit kernels; for x86
> it might work fine by chance if the padding is zero, but not
> on big-endian architectures.
>
> Reported-by: Thomas Sattler
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Peter Xu