Commit
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.
Browse files
Browse the repository at this point in the history
hw/net/msf2-emac: Don't modify descriptor in-place in emac_store_desc()
The msf2-emac ethernet controller has functions emac_load_desc() and emac_store_desc() which read and write the in-memory descriptor blocks and handle conversion between guest and host endianness. As currently written, emac_store_desc() does the endianness conversion in-place; this means that it effectively consumes the input EmacDesc struct, because on a big-endian host the fields will be overwritten with the little-endian versions of their values. Unfortunately, in all the callsites the code continues to access fields in the EmacDesc struct after it has called emac_store_desc() -- specifically, it looks at the d.next field. The effect of this is that on a big-endian host networking doesn't work because the address of the next descriptor is corrupted. We could fix this by making the callsite avoid using the struct; but it's more robust to have emac_store_desc() leave its input alone. (emac_load_desc() also does an in-place conversion, but here this is fine, because the function is supposed to be initializing the struct.) Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-id: 20230424151919.1333299-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
- Loading branch information