From: Luke Shumaker <luke...@parabola.nu>
Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <luke...@parabola.nu>
---
linux-user/elfload.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/linux-user/elfload.c b/linux-user/elfload.c
index 22f2632dfa..b560f5d6fe 100644
--- a/linux-user/elfload.c
+++ b/linux-user/elfload.c
@@ -374,6 +374,11 @@ static int init_guest_commpage(unsigned long guest_base,
/* If the commpage lies within the already allocated guest space,
* then there is no way we can allocate it.
+ *
+ * You may be thinking that that this check is redundant because
+ * we already validated the guest size against MAX_RESERVED_VA;
+ * but if qemu_host_page_mask is unusually large, then
+ * test_page_addr may be lower.
*/
if (test_page_addr >= guest_base
&& test_page_addr < (guest_base + guest_size)) {
--
2.15.1
