From: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com> The start of the address space indicates which maximum alignment is supported by our machine (e.g. ppc, x86 1GB). This is helpful to catch fragmenting guest physical memory in strange fashions.
Right now we can crash QEMU by e.g. (there might be easier examples) qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256M,maxmem=20G,slots=2 \ -object memory-backend-file,id=mem0,size=8192M,mem-path=/dev/zero,align=8192M \ -device pc-dimm,id=dimm1,memdev=mem0 Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180607154705.6316-2-da...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- hw/mem/memory-device.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/mem/memory-device.c b/hw/mem/memory-device.c index 3e04f39..6de4f70 100644 --- a/hw/mem/memory-device.c +++ b/hw/mem/memory-device.c @@ -116,9 +116,15 @@ uint64_t memory_device_get_free_addr(MachineState *ms, const uint64_t *hint, address_space_start = ms->device_memory->base; address_space_end = address_space_start + memory_region_size(&ms->device_memory->mr); - g_assert(QEMU_ALIGN_UP(address_space_start, align) == address_space_start); g_assert(address_space_end >= address_space_start); + /* address_space_start indicates the maximum alignment we expect */ + if (QEMU_ALIGN_UP(address_space_start, align) != address_space_start) { + error_setg(errp, "the alignment (0%" PRIx64 ") is not supported", + align); + return 0; + } + memory_device_check_addable(ms, size, errp); if (*errp) { return 0; -- 1.8.3.1