Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: avoid segfault in case netdev_del non-host network device

[Lei Li]

On 11/01/2012 05:42 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Lei Li <address@hidden> wrote:
> > netdev_del assume that remove host network device.
> > However, when try to remove a non-host network device
> > by netdev_del, it will cause a segfault.
> I recently sent a similar fix which forbids deleting non-netdev net
> clients from netdev_del:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/193759/

Hi Stefan,

Sorry I did not see it... Seems I miss this chance to submit a patch.  :-P

BTW, I was thinking that should we add another hacking to check
if the deleting object is a netdev or a VLAN client?

> netdev_del should only be used on -netdev/netdev_add devices.
> Therefore my patch raises an error before we call
> qemu_del_net_client(nc).
>
> Stefan


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Lei