If we directly cast from int to uint64_t, we will first sign-extend to
an int64_t, which is wrong. We actually want to treat the PFNs like
unsigned values.

As far as I can see, this dates back to the initial virtio-balloon
commit, but wasn't triggered as fairly big guests would be required.

Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
 hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
index e85d1c0d5c..515abf6553 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
@@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ static void virtio_balloon_handle_output(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
         }
 
         while (iov_to_buf(elem->out_sg, elem->out_num, offset, &pfn, 4) == 4) {
+            unsigned int p = virtio_ldl_p(vdev, &pfn);
             hwaddr pa;
-            int p = virtio_ldl_p(vdev, &pfn);
 
             pa = (hwaddr) p << VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT;
             offset += 4;
-- 
2.21.0

> 
> If we directly cast from int to uint64_t, we will first sign-extend to
> an int64_t, which is wrong. We actually want to treat the PFNs like
> unsigned values.
> 
> As far as I can see, this dates back to the initial virtio-balloon
> commit, but wasn't triggered as fairly big guests would be required.
> 
> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> ---
>  hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
> index e85d1c0d5c..515abf6553 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-balloon.c
> @@ -343,8 +343,8 @@ static void virtio_balloon_handle_output(VirtIODevice
> *vdev, VirtQueue *vq)
>          }
>  
>          while (iov_to_buf(elem->out_sg, elem->out_num, offset, &pfn, 4) ==
>          4) {                                                         
> +            unsigned int p = virtio_ldl_p(vdev, &pfn);
>              hwaddr pa;
> -            int p = virtio_ldl_p(vdev, &pfn);
>  
>              pa = (hwaddr) p << VIRTIO_BALLOON_PFN_SHIFT;
>              offset += 4;
> --
> 2.21.0

Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>

> 
> 
>