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[PATCH 1/4] x86/pagewalk: avoid ACCESS_ONCE() in compound literals


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  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 13:51:28 +0200
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  • Cc: Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetrini@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, Teddy Astie <teddy.astie@xxxxxxxxxx>, Roger Pau Monné <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:51:34 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

Compound literals are also covered by Misra C:2012 rule 13.1
("Initializer lists shall not contain persistent side effects"), and
(sadly?) that rule also applies to lists with just a single element, or
more generally with just a single side effect. Use intermediate variables
to overcome this as well as ACCESS_ONCE()'s restriction to be usable on
scalar types only.

No functional change intended.

Fixes: 0345b835dc97 ("x86/pagewalk: Read guest PTEs with ACCESS_ONCE()")
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/guest_walk.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/guest_walk.c
@@ -129,7 +129,9 @@ guest_walk_tables(const struct vcpu *v,
             guest_l4_table_offset(va) * sizeof(gw->l4e);
     if ( !hvmemul_read_cache(v, l4gpa, &gw->l4e, sizeof(gw->l4e)) )
     {
-        gw->l4e = (guest_l4e_t){ 
ACCESS_ONCE(l4p[guest_l4_table_offset(va)].l4) };
+        guest_intpte_t l4e = ACCESS_ONCE(l4p[guest_l4_table_offset(va)].l4);
+
+        gw->l4e = (guest_l4e_t){ l4e };
         hvmemul_write_cache(v, l4gpa, &gw->l4e, sizeof(gw->l4e));
     }
     gflags = guest_l4e_get_flags(gw->l4e);
@@ -164,7 +166,9 @@ guest_walk_tables(const struct vcpu *v,
             guest_l3_table_offset(va) * sizeof(gw->l3e);
     if ( !hvmemul_read_cache(v, l3gpa, &gw->l3e, sizeof(gw->l3e)) )
     {
-        gw->l3e = (guest_l3e_t){ 
ACCESS_ONCE(l3p[guest_l3_table_offset(va)].l3) };
+        guest_intpte_t l3e = ACCESS_ONCE(l3p[guest_l3_table_offset(va)].l3);
+
+        gw->l3e = (guest_l3e_t){ l3e };
         hvmemul_write_cache(v, l3gpa, &gw->l3e, sizeof(gw->l3e));
     }
     gflags = guest_l3e_get_flags(gw->l3e);
@@ -264,7 +268,9 @@ guest_walk_tables(const struct vcpu *v,
     l2gpa += guest_l2_table_offset(va) * sizeof(gw->l2e);
     if ( !hvmemul_read_cache(v, l2gpa, &gw->l2e, sizeof(gw->l2e)) )
     {
-        gw->l2e = (guest_l2e_t){ 
ACCESS_ONCE(l2p[guest_l2_table_offset(va)].l2) };
+        guest_intpte_t l2e = ACCESS_ONCE(l2p[guest_l2_table_offset(va)].l2);
+
+        gw->l2e = (guest_l2e_t){ l2e };
         hvmemul_write_cache(v, l2gpa, &gw->l2e, sizeof(gw->l2e));
     }
 
@@ -353,7 +359,9 @@ guest_walk_tables(const struct vcpu *v,
             guest_l1_table_offset(va) * sizeof(gw->l1e);
     if ( !hvmemul_read_cache(v, l1gpa, &gw->l1e, sizeof(gw->l1e)) )
     {
-        gw->l1e = (guest_l1e_t){ 
ACCESS_ONCE(l1p[guest_l1_table_offset(va)].l1) };
+        guest_intpte_t l1e = ACCESS_ONCE(l1p[guest_l1_table_offset(va)].l1);
+
+        gw->l1e = (guest_l1e_t){ l1e };
         hvmemul_write_cache(v, l1gpa, &gw->l1e, sizeof(gw->l1e));
     }
 




 


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