Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH-v2 0/3] virtio/vhost: Add checks for uninitialized VQs

[Nicholas A. Bellinger]

On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 15:01 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 11:58:21PM +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > From: Nicholas Bellinger <address@hidden>
> > 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > This series adds a virtio_queue_valid() for use by virtio-pci code in
> > order to prevent opreations upon uninitialized VQs, which is currently
> > expected to occur during seabios setup of virtio-scsi with in-flight
> > vhost-scsi-pci device code.
> > 
> > On the vhost side, it also adds virtio_queue_valid() sanity checks in
> > vhost_virtqueue_[start,stop]() and vhost_verify_ring_mappings() in order
> > to skip the same uninitialized VQs.
> > 
> > Changes from v1:
> >   - Remove now unnecessary virtio_queue_get_num() calls in virtio-pci.c
> >   - Add virtio_queue_valid() calls in vhost_virtqueue_[start,stop]()
> > 
> > Please review.
> > 
> > --nab
> 
> Looks reasonable.
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
> 

Thanks MST!

Anthony, do you want to pick these up now..?  Or shall I include in the
next vhost-scsi-pci PATCH-v3 series..?

--nab

> So - does this fix the issues you saw with vhost-scsi?
> 
> > Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
> >   virtio: add API to check that ring is setup
> > 
> > Nicholas Bellinger (2):
> >   virtio-pci: Add virtio_queue_valid checks ahead of
> >     virtio_queue_get_num
> >   vhost: Skip uninitialized VQs in vhost_virtqueue_[start,stop]
> > 
> >  hw/vhost.c      |   12 ++++++++++++
> >  hw/virtio-pci.c |   34 +++++++++++++++-------------------
> >  hw/virtio.c     |    5 +++++
> >  hw/virtio.h     |    1 +
> >  4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 1.7.2.5
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