This helps to uncover expensive and needless clones in the code base.
For example, I prevented extensive clones in the snapshot path where
(nested) BTreeMap's have been cloned over and over again. Further,
the lint helps devs to much better reason about the ownership of
parameters.
All of these changes have been done manually with the necessary
caution. A few structs that are cheap to clone are now `copy` so that
this lint won't trigger for them.
I didn't enable the lint so far as it is a massive rabbit hole and
needs much more fixes. Nevertheless, it is very useful.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Schuster <philipp.schuster@cyberus-technology.de>
On-behalf-of: SAP philipp.schuster@sap.com
To ensure that struct sizes are the same on 32-bit and 64-bit, various
kernel APIs use __u64 (Rust u64) to represent userspace pointers.
Userspace is expected to cast pointers to __u64 before passing them to
the kernel, and cast kernel-provided __u64 to a pointer before using
them. However, various safe APIs in Cloud Hypervisor took
caller-provided u64 values and passed them to syscalls that interpret
them as userspace addresses. Therefore, passing bad u64 values would
cause memory disclosure or corruption.
Fix the bug by using usize and pointer types as appropriate. To make
soundness of the code easier to reason about, the PCI code gains a new
MmapRegion abstraction that ensures the validity of pointers. The rest
of the code already has an MmapRegion abstraction it can use. To avoid
having to reason about whether something is keeping the MmapRegion
alive, reference counting is added. MmapRegion cannot hold references
to other objects, so the reference counting cannot introduce cycles.
Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
This patch introduces the inter-vm shared memory(ivshmem) device
to share a memory region between multiple processes running
different guests and the host.
This patch supports the basic ivshmem functions like ivshmem-plain
in QEMU[1].
[1] https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/specs/ivshmem-spec.html
Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <foxywang@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Songqian Li <sionli@tencent.com>
