[PATCH] MIPS: KVM: do not sign extend on unsigned MMIO load

From: Nicholas Mc Guire
Date: Thu May 07 2015 - 08:56:17 EST


Fix possible unintended sign extension in unsigned MMIO loads by casting
to uint16_t in the case of mmio_needed != 2.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Thanks to James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx> for the explaination of
mmio_needed (there is not really any helpful comment in the code on this)
in this case (mmio_needed!=2) it should be unsigned.

Patch was only compile tested msp71xx_defconfig + CONFIG_KVM=m

Patch is against 4.1-rc2 (localversion-next is -next-20150506)

arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c
index 6230f37..2f0fc60 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -2415,7 +2415,7 @@ enum emulation_result kvm_mips_complete_mmio_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
if (vcpu->mmio_needed == 2)
*gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data;
else
- *gpr = *(int16_t *) run->mmio.data;
+ *gpr = *(uint16_t *)run->mmio.data;

break;
case 1:
--
1.7.10.4

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