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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] virtio-console: spec compliance fixes
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:41:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180424214104-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1524248223-393618-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com>

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 09:17:59PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Turns out virtio console tries to take a buffer out of an active vq.
> Works by sheer luck, and is explicitly forbidden by spec.  And while
> going over it I saw that error handling is also broken -
> failure is easy to trigger if I force allocations to fail.
> 
> Lightly tested.

Amit - any feedback before I push these patches?

> Michael S. Tsirkin (6):
>   virtio_console: don't tie bufs to a vq
>   virtio: add ability to iterate over vqs
>   virtio_console: free buffers after reset
>   virtio_console: drop custom control queue cleanup
>   virtio_console: move removal code
>   virtio_console: reset on out of memory
> 
>  drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 155 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  include/linux/virtio.h        |   3 +
>  2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> MST
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-24 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-20 18:18 [PATCH 0/6] virtio-console: spec compliance fixes Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-20 18:18 ` [PATCH 1/6] virtio_console: don't tie bufs to a vq Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-21  7:30   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-24 18:56     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-25  5:50       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-20 18:18 ` [PATCH 3/6] virtio_console: free buffers after reset Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-24  2:40   ` Jason Wang
2018-04-20 18:18 ` [PATCH 2/6] virtio: add ability to iterate over vqs Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-20 18:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] virtio_console: drop custom control queue cleanup Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-20 18:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] virtio_console: move removal code Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-20 18:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] virtio_console: reset on out of memory Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-04-24 18:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-04-25 14:01   ` [PATCH 0/6] virtio-console: spec compliance fixes Amit Shah
2018-05-03  3:34   ` Amit Shah
2018-05-03  3:45   ` Amit Shah
2018-05-03 19:28     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-05-06 17:56       ` Amit Shah
2018-05-06 18:24       ` Amit Shah
2018-05-06 19:52         ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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