Re: [PATCH] vhost: fix offset while mmaping log base address

["BillXiang" <xiangwencheng@dayudpu.com>]

From: BillXiang <xiangwencheng@dayudpu.com>

> From: "Chenbo Xia"<chenbox@nvidia.com>
> Date: Tue, Jul 9, 2024, 20:42
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost: fix offset while mmaping log base address
> To: "BillXiang"<xiangwencheng@dayudpu.com>
> Cc: "Maxime Coquelin"<maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>, "Jianfeng Tan"<jianfeng.tan@intel.com>, "Tomasz Kulasek"<tomaszx.kulasek@intel.com>, "Pawel Wodkowski"<pawelx.wodkowski@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org"<dev@dpdk.org>
> > On Jul 8, 2024, at 14:57, BillXiang <xiangwencheng@dayudpu.com> wrote:
> >
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> >
> > From: BillXiang <xiangwencheng@dayudpu.com>
> >
> > For sanity the offset should be the last parameter of mmap.
> >
> > Fixes: fbc4d24 ("vhost: fix offset while mmaping log base address")
>
> The commit id length should be 12.
>

Thanks, I will mind it.

> Since QEMU always send offset 0, I think it's no need to backport the
> patch, so no cc-stable is fine.
>

I just think the code is confusing and I'm wondering whether the offset 
sent by QEMU or maybe other VM can be non-zero.

If it's a mistake just fix it.

> With above fixed:
>
> Reviewed-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbox@nvidia.com>
>
> > Signed-off-by: BillXiang <xiangwencheng@dayudpu.com>
> > ---
> > lib/vhost/vhost_user.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
> > index 5f470da38a..0893ae80bb 100644
> > --- a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
> > +++ b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
> > @@ -2399,7 +2399,7 @@ vhost_user_set_log_base(struct virtio_net **pdev,
> >     * mmap from 0 to workaround a hugepage mmap bug: mmap will
> >     * fail when offset is not page size aligned.
> >     */
> > -    addr = mmap(0, size + off, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
> > +    addr = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, off);
> >    alignment = get_blk_size(fd);
> >    close(fd);
> >    if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
> > --
> > 2.30.0