Re: [PATCH 0/6] virtio-console: spec compliance fixes

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Apr 24 2018 - 14:41:35 EST


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(-)
>
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> MST
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