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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest/core.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/lguest/core.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/core.c b/drivers/lguest/core.c index 2cea0c80c992..1eb05f9a56b6 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/core.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/core.c @@ -208,24 +208,39 @@ static int emulate_insn(struct lguest *lg) return 1; } +/*L:305 + * Dealing With Guest Memory. + * + * When the Guest gives us (what it thinks is) a physical address, we can use + * the normal copy_from_user() & copy_to_user() on that address: remember, + * Guest physical == Launcher virtual. + * + * But we can't trust the Guest: it might be trying to access the Launcher + * code. We have to check that the range is below the pfn_limit the Launcher + * gave us. We have to make sure that addr + len doesn't give us a false + * positive by overflowing, too. */ int lguest_address_ok(const struct lguest *lg, unsigned long addr, unsigned long len) { return (addr+len) / PAGE_SIZE < lg->pfn_limit && (addr+len >= addr); } -/* Just like get_user, but don't let guest access lguest binary. */ +/* This is a convenient routine to get a 32-bit value from the Guest (a very + * common operation). Here we can see how useful the kill_lguest() routine we + * met in the Launcher can be: we return a random value (0) instead of needing + * to return an error. */ u32 lgread_u32(struct lguest *lg, unsigned long addr) { u32 val = 0; - /* Don't let them access lguest binary */ + /* Don't let them access lguest binary. */ if (!lguest_address_ok(lg, addr, sizeof(val)) || get_user(val, (u32 __user *)addr) != 0) kill_guest(lg, "bad read address %#lx", addr); return val; } +/* Same thing for writing a value. */ void lgwrite_u32(struct lguest *lg, unsigned long addr, u32 val) { if (!lguest_address_ok(lg, addr, sizeof(val)) @@ -233,6 +248,9 @@ void lgwrite_u32(struct lguest *lg, unsigned long addr, u32 val) kill_guest(lg, "bad write address %#lx", addr); } +/* This routine is more generic, and copies a range of Guest bytes into a + * buffer. If the copy_from_user() fails, we fill the buffer with zeroes, so + * the caller doesn't end up using uninitialized kernel memory. */ void lgread(struct lguest *lg, void *b, unsigned long addr, unsigned bytes) { if (!lguest_address_ok(lg, addr, bytes) @@ -243,6 +261,7 @@ void lgread(struct lguest *lg, void *b, unsigned long addr, unsigned bytes) } } +/* Similarly, our generic routine to copy into a range of Guest bytes. */ void lgwrite(struct lguest *lg, unsigned long addr, const void *b, unsigned bytes) { @@ -250,6 +269,7 @@ void lgwrite(struct lguest *lg, unsigned long addr, const void *b, || copy_to_user((void __user *)addr, b, bytes) != 0) kill_guest(lg, "bad write address %#lx len %u", addr, bytes); } +/* (end of memory access helper routines) :*/ static void set_ts(void) { |
