Re: [patch RFC] kvm, cpuid: silence a buffer overflow warning

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 02:07:42PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 20/02/2014 13:34, Dan Carpenter ha scritto:
> > This seems like a harmless off by one overflow if "i" is the last
> > element in the vcpu->arch.cpuid_entries[] array.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Not tested.  I always wonder if it's worth fixing these or if it's worth
> > reporting them?  Either of those seem like a lot of work for something
> > harmless.
> 
> Could it oops if cpuid_nent is INT_MAX?

cpuid_nent is capped at KVM_MAX_CPUID_ENTRIES (80).

regards,
dan carpenter

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