The msf2-emac ethernet controller has functions emac_load_desc() and
emac_store_desc() which read and write the in-memory descriptor
blocks and handle conversion between guest and host endianness.

As currently written, emac_store_desc() does the endianness
conversion in-place; this means that it effectively consumes the
input EmacDesc struct, because on a big-endian host the fields will
be overwritten with the little-endian versions of their values.
Unfortunately, in all the callsites the code continues to access
fields in the EmacDesc struct after it has called emac_store_desc()
-- specifically, it looks at the d.next field.

The effect of this is that on a big-endian host networking doesn't
work because the address of the next descriptor is corrupted.

We could fix this by making the callsite avoid using the struct; but
it's more robust to have emac_store_desc() leave its input alone.

(emac_load_desc() also does an in-place conversion, but here this is
fine, because the function is supposed to be initializing the
struct.)

Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20230424151919.1333299-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
---
 hw/net/msf2-emac.c | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/net/msf2-emac.c b/hw/net/msf2-emac.c
index 7ccd3e51427..db3a04deb19 100644
--- a/hw/net/msf2-emac.c
+++ b/hw/net/msf2-emac.c
@@ -118,14 +118,18 @@ static void emac_load_desc(MSF2EmacState *s, EmacDesc *d, hwaddr desc)
     d->next = le32_to_cpu(d->next);
 }
 
-static void emac_store_desc(MSF2EmacState *s, EmacDesc *d, hwaddr desc)
+static void emac_store_desc(MSF2EmacState *s, const EmacDesc *d, hwaddr desc)
 {
-    /* Convert from host endianness into LE. */
-    d->pktaddr = cpu_to_le32(d->pktaddr);
-    d->pktsize = cpu_to_le32(d->pktsize);
-    d->next = cpu_to_le32(d->next);
+    EmacDesc outd;
+    /*
+     * Convert from host endianness into LE. We use a local struct because
+     * calling code may still want to look at the fields afterwards.
+     */
+    outd.pktaddr = cpu_to_le32(d->pktaddr);
+    outd.pktsize = cpu_to_le32(d->pktsize);
+    outd.next = cpu_to_le32(d->next);
 
-    address_space_write(&s->dma_as, desc, MEMTXATTRS_UNSPECIFIED, d, sizeof *d);
+    address_space_write(&s->dma_as, desc, MEMTXATTRS_UNSPECIFIED, &outd, sizeof outd);
 }
 
 static void msf2_dma_tx(MSF2EmacState *s)
-- 
2.34.1