target-ppc: Document TOCTTOU in hugepage support
commit3be5cc23245637577210e43e68dd3babd01fbb5e
authorMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:34:16 +0000 (15 19:34 +0100)
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:34:21 +0000 (18 17:34 +0100)
tree8db37cea025da470a7ca1a65256de7ba1531b382
parent6741d38ad0f2405a6e999ebc9550801b01aca479
target-ppc: Document TOCTTOU in hugepage support

The code to find the minimum page size is is vulnerable to TOCTTOU.
Added in commit 2d103aa "target-ppc: fix hugepage support when using
memory-backend-file" (v2.4.0).  Since I can't fix it myself right now,
add a FIXME comment.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1458066895-20632-2-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
target-ppc/kvm.c