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Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] xen: arm: fix len type for guest copy functions


  • To: Luca Fancellu <Luca.Fancellu@xxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 11:05:22 +0200
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  • Delivery-date: Tue, 05 May 2026 09:05:33 +0000
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On 05.05.2026 10:27, Luca Fancellu wrote:
>> On 4 May 2026, at 06:30, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 29.04.2026 12:08, Luca Fancellu wrote:
>>>> @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ unsigned long raw_copy_from_guest(void *to, const void 
>>>> __user *from,
>>>> unsigned long copy_to_guest_phys_flush_dcache(struct domain *d,
>>>>                                              paddr_t gpa,
>>>>                                              void *buf,
>>>> -                                              unsigned int len)
>>>> +                                              unsigned long len)
>>>> {
>>>
>>> Now that we do this, potentially we could have truncation in the places 
>>> where we store its return value
>>> inside an int:
>>
>> Those would suffer from truncation before and after this change, wouldn't 
>> they?
>> Just that where the truncation occurs does move. I.e. if necessary they would
>> want dealing with separately.
> 
> yes that’s true, truncation was already there in different places, do you 
> want to deal with it separately so that
> we have a Fixes tag for it?

I already said I'd like that to be dealt with separately, didn't I?

Jan



 


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