Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: TDX: Fix a benign off-by-one bug on the end GPA for INIT_MEM_REGION

Binbin Wu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kvm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/7/2026 1:06 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> When verifying that the incoming GPA rage for INIT_MEM_REGION doesn't wrap,
> check the inclusive last GPA, not the exclusive last GPA.  Super duper
> technically, it's ok if the very last GPA is -1ull.  In practice, the flaw
> is benign as KVM x86 disallows memslots with GPAs that exceed MAXPHYADDR,
> i.e. INIT_MEM_REGION would fail with -EINVAL anyways due to the memslot
> check in kvm_gmem_populate().
> 
> Opportunistically use check_add_overflow() instead of manually checking for
> wrap, mostly so that the inclusive math doesn't need to be copy+pasted in
> the "is private" check.
> 
> Fixes: c846b451d3c5 ("KVM: TDX: Add an ioctl to create initial guest memory")
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <[email protected]>
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