This is a follow-up to a more-or-less trivial commit, 2e84849aa2cc7f220d3b3668f5f7e3c57bb1b590 . I'm adding some more context - the whole function in question.
commit 2e84849aa2cc7f220d3b3668f5f7e3c57bb1b590 Author: Don Slutz <d...@cloudswitch.com> Date: Fri Sep 21 20:13:13 2012 -0400 target-i386: Allow tsc-frequency to be larger then 2.147G The check using INT_MAX (2147483647) is wrong in this case. Signed-off-by: Fred Oliveira <folive...@cloudswitch.com> Signed-off-by: Don Slutz <d...@cloudswitch.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> diff --git a/target-i386/cpu.c b/target-i386/cpu.c index 423e009..cbc172e 100644 --- a/target-i386/cpu.c +++ b/target-i386/cpu.c @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ static void x86_cpuid_set_tsc_freq(Object *obj, Visitor *v, void *opaque, { X86CPU *cpu = X86_CPU(obj); const int64_t min = 0; - const int64_t max = INT_MAX; + const int64_t max = INT64_MAX; int64_t value; visit_type_int(v, &value, name, errp); if (error_is_set(errp)) { return; } if (value < min || value > max) { error_set(errp, QERR_PROPERTY_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE, "", name ? name : "null", value, min, max); return; } cpu->env.tsc_khz = value / 1000; } The patch makes the second test (if value > max) to be a no-op, since value is of type int64_t, and max is now INT64_MAX, so value can never be larger than max. Overflow can be catched by the first test (value < 0). Note this function has another defect: the tsc frequency is truncated to KHz. It's okay when it is called from the default cpu init function, where the initial value is in khz and is multiplied by 1000 when calling x86_cpuid_set_tsc_freq(), but not okay when called as a handler for user- defined option, like -cpu foo,tsc_frequency=bar. I'm not sure how often this option is used, however. Thanks, /mjt