Re: [PATCH] xen/pvcalls: bound backend response req_id before indexing rsp[]

From: Jürgen Groß

Date: Wed Jun 10 2026 - 08:25:35 EST


On 10.06.26 13:50, Michael Bommarito wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 7:48 AM Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Please add an error message here, using pr_err_once().

Instead of just ignoring such responses, I'd consider stopping communication
with the backend for this device.

Good points. Do you know if there is a canonical way to track
bad/buggy backends I should reference or reuse?

You could follow the xen-netback example (see xenvif_fatal_tx_err() and its
callers in drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c).


Juergen

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