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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/6] x86/xstate: Fix latent bugs in expand_xsave_states()



>>> On 12.09.16 at 14:29, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/09/16 12:41, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 12.09.16 at 11:51, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> @@ -205,11 +222,9 @@ void expand_xsave_states(struct vcpu *v, void *dest, 
>>> unsigned int size)
>>>  
>>>          if ( src )
>>>          {
>>> -            ASSERT((xstate_offsets[index] + xstate_sizes[index]) <= size);
>>> +            BUG_ON((xstate_offsets[index] + xstate_sizes[index]) <= size);
>> Surely converting an ASSERT() to BUG_ON() means inverting the
>> relational operator used?
> 
> Very true.  It is unfortunate that all of this is dead code, and
> impossible to test.  I also had half a mind to explicitly #if 0 it out
> to leave people in no illusion that it ever might have been tested.

So with this correct, the patch is then
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>


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