static int ahci_populate_sglist(AHCIDevice *ad, QEMUSGList *sglist, int offset)
static int ahci_populate_sglist(AHCIDevice *ad, QEMUSGList *sglist,
                                int32_t offset)
 {
     AHCICmdHdr *cmd = ad->cur_cmd;
     uint32_t opts = le32_to_cpu(cmd->opts);
    int sglist_alloc_hint = opts >> AHCI_CMD_HDR_PRDT_LEN;
    dma_addr_t prdt_len = (sglist_alloc_hint * sizeof(AHCI_SG));
    dma_addr_t real_prdt_len = prdt_len;
    uint8_t *prdt;
     uint8_t *prdt;
     int i;
     int r = 0;
    uint64_t sum = 0;
     int off_idx = -1;
    int64_t off_pos = -1;
     int tbl_entry_size;
     IDEBus *bus = &ad->port;
     BusState *qbus = BUS(bus);
 
    /*
     * Note: AHCI PRDT can describe up to 256GiB. SATA/ATA only support
     * transactions of up to 32MiB as of ATA8-ACS3 rev 1b, assuming a
     * 512 byte sector size. We limit the PRDT in this implementation to
     * a reasonably large 2GiB, which can accommodate the maximum transfer
     * request for sector sizes up to 32K.
     */

     if (!sglist_alloc_hint) {
         DPRINTF(ad->port_no, "no sg list given by guest: 0x%08x\n", opts);
         return -1;
    if (prdt_len < real_prdt_len) {
        DPRINTF(ad->port_no, "mapped less than expected\n");
        r = -1;
        goto out;
    }

    /* Get entries in the PRDT, init a qemu sglist accordingly */
    if (sglist_alloc_hint > 0) {
        AHCI_SG *tbl = (AHCI_SG *)prdt;
        sum = 0;
        for (i = 0; i < sglist_alloc_hint; i++) {
            /* flags_size is zero-based */
            tbl_entry_size = prdt_tbl_entry_size(&tbl[i]);
            if (offset <= (sum + tbl_entry_size)) {
                off_idx = i;
                off_pos = offset - sum;
                break;
            }
            sum += tbl_entry_size;
        }
        if ((off_idx == -1) || (off_pos < 0) || (off_pos > tbl_entry_size)) {
            DPRINTF(ad->port_no, "%s: Incorrect offset! "
                            "off_idx: %d, off_pos: %d\n",
                            __func__, off_idx, off_pos);
            r = -1;
            goto out;
        }

         }
         if ((off_idx == -1) || (off_pos < 0) || (off_pos > tbl_entry_size)) {
             DPRINTF(ad->port_no, "%s: Incorrect offset! "
                            "off_idx: %d, off_pos: %"PRId64"\n",
                             __func__, off_idx, off_pos);
             r = -1;
             goto out;
            qemu_sglist_add(sglist, le64_to_cpu(tbl[i].addr),
                            prdt_tbl_entry_size(&tbl[i]));
        }
    }

out:
    dma_memory_unmap(ad->hba->as, prdt, prdt_len,
                     DMA_DIRECTION_TO_DEVICE, prdt_len);
             /* flags_size is zero-based */
             qemu_sglist_add(sglist, le64_to_cpu(tbl[i].addr),
                             prdt_tbl_entry_size(&tbl[i]));
            if (sglist->size > INT32_MAX) {
                error_report("AHCI Physical Region Descriptor Table describes "
                             "more than 2 GiB.\n");
                qemu_sglist_destroy(sglist);
                r = -1;
                goto out;
            }
         }

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