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

From: Amit Shah
Date: Wed May 02 2018 - 23:45:42 EST


(apologies if you received a dup)

On (Tue) 24 Apr 2018 [21:41:29], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 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?

The changes look good spec-wise.

There are a bunch of tests in avocado-vt that test virtio-console
functionality. Can you give those a try before pushing?

Amit
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