On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 at 08:43, Panda Jiang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In tb_gen_code(), get_page_addr_code_hostp() is called to get a host
> mapping for a guest PC. If the function fails (e.g., for an I/O region)
> and returns -1, it previously left its output pointer parameter
> ('host_pc' in the caller) unmodified.
>
> If the caller's variable was uninitialized, this leads to undefined
> behavior when it is later used, for example in setjmp_gen_code(). This
> was observed as a segmentation fault when running QEMU with the
> '-d in_asm' logging option when mmu translation fails.
>
> As suggested by Richard Henderson, fix this within get_page_addr_code_hostp()
> itself rather than in the caller. Ensure that in all failure paths where -1
> is returned, the output pointer is explicitly set to NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Panda Jiang <[email protected]>
> ---
> + Changes in v2:
> + - Moved the fix from the caller (tb_gen_code) to the callee
> +   (get_page_addr_code_hostp).
> + - Set the output pointer to NULL on failure paths inside
> +   get_page_addr_code_hostp, as suggested.
> + - Updated commit message to reflect the new approach.

See Richard's elsewhere fix:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/

>  accel/tcg/cputlb.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/accel/tcg/cputlb.c b/accel/tcg/cputlb.c
> index 6900a12682..6d7cfd2b5a 100644
> --- a/accel/tcg/cputlb.c
> +++ b/accel/tcg/cputlb.c
> @@ -1543,6 +1543,10 @@ tb_page_addr_t get_page_addr_code_hostp(CPUArchState 
> *env, vaddr addr,
>      CPUTLBEntryFull *full;
>      void *p;
>
> +    if (hostp) {
> +        *hostp = NULL;
> +    }
> +
>      (void)probe_access_internal(env_cpu(env), addr, 1, MMU_INST_FETCH,
>                                  cpu_mmu_index(env_cpu(env), true), false,
>                                  &p, &full, 0, false);
> --
> 2.39.2 (Apple Git-143)
>
>

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