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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] VNC: Fix crash with non-resizing clients


From: Eduardo Felipe
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] VNC: Fix crash with non-resizing clients
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 23:00:45 +0200


2007/10/3, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>:

The memset calls in that patch are bogus & not correctly fixing the buffer
update problem. You're merely setting the 'old data' to have pixel value
42 - if the guest OS framebuffer happens to also have aras with pixel value
of 42 too, the frame buffer will still not correctly update. The root
problem is overly-aggressive update minimization logic in vnc_update_client.
This is in turn flawed beause the dirty_row aray is trying to encode two
separate concepts - areas which are dirty, and areas which need to be
sent to the client. The latter are a superset of the former, but the code
in vnc_update_client minimizes based on dirtiness, so updates will get
missed out. Setting the old data to 42 merely changes which areas will get
missed updates.

Agreed. I just used the same hack that is scattered around several other places to make a patch quickly.


The QEMU code in Xen has added a update_row field, separate from the dirty_row
field. Thus after a resize it can update the entire framebuffer, regardless
of whether QEMU's copy of the framebuffer is dirty wrt to the guest copy.

I think that VNC server needs a deep rework, as several qemu related projects have done, but meanwhile correcting bugs with small non-intrusive patches may be the way to go.

Edu.


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