On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 at 03:38, Duan, Zhenzhong <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Peter Maydell <[email protected]>
> >Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfio/migration: Fix page size calculation
> >
> >On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 at 06:03, Zhenzhong Duan <[email protected]>
> >wrote:
> >>
> >> Coverity detected an issue of left shifting int by more than 31 bits 
> >> leading
> >> to undefined behavior.
> >>
> >> In practice bcontainer->dirty_pgsizes always have some common page sizes
> >> when dirty tracking is supported.
> >>
> >> Resolves: Coverity CID 1644186
> >> Resolves: Coverity CID 1644187
> >> Resolves: Coverity CID 1644188
> >> Fixes: 46c763311419 ("vfio/migration: Add migration blocker if VM memory
> >is too large to cause unmap_bitmap failure").
> >> Suggested-by: Cédric Le Goater <[email protected]>
> >> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >>  hw/vfio/migration.c | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/hw/vfio/migration.c b/hw/vfio/migration.c
> >> index f857dc25ed..b4695030c7 100644
> >> --- a/hw/vfio/migration.c
> >> +++ b/hw/vfio/migration.c
> >> @@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@ static bool
> >vfio_dirty_tracking_exceed_limit(VFIODevice *vbasedev)
> >>       * can also switch to use IOMMUFD backend if there is a need to
> >migrate
> >>       * large VM.
> >>       */
> >> -    page_size = 1 << ctz64(bcontainer->dirty_pgsizes);
> >> +    page_size = 1ULL << ctz64(bcontainer->dirty_pgsizes);
> >>      max_size = bcontainer->max_dirty_bitmap_size * BITS_PER_BYTE *
> >page_size;
> >
> >This doesn't strictly speaking resolve CID 1644186, because
> >what Coverity sees is that ctz64() returns 64 when dirty_pgsizes
> >is zero. That is still UB even with the ULL suffix.
>
> Hmm, maybe, I didn't find easy way to verify it with Coverity test.
> In fact, this code is guarded by below check:
>
>     if (!bcontainer->dirty_pages_supported) {
>         return false;
>     }
>
> If the check pass, we are sure dirty_pgsizes has host page size bit set at 
> least:
>
>     if (cap_mig->pgsize_bitmap & qemu_real_host_page_size()) {
>         bcontainer->dirty_pages_supported = true;
>         bcontainer->max_dirty_bitmap_size = cap_mig->max_dirty_bitmap_size;
>         bcontainer->dirty_pgsizes = cap_mig->pgsize_bitmap;
>     }
>
> >
> >But if we are enforcing somewhere that dirty_pgsizes is
> >never zero, then this is fine and we can mark that Coverity
> >issue as a false-positive.
>
> May I ask how to mark it?
> Maybe Coverity test is smart enough to not report in this case😊

It's usually not that clever. I'll mark the relevant issues
as false-positive in the web UI.

Thanks for confirming that there's a "definitely at least
one bit set" check already.

-- PMM

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