Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/5] qtest: allow arbitrarily long sends

[Eric Blake]

On 05/05/2015 04:22 PM, John Snow wrote:
> qtest currently has a static buffer of size 1024 that if we
> overflow, ignores the additional data silently which leads
> to hangs or stream failures.
> 
> Use glib's string facilities to allow arbitrarily long data,
> but split this off into a new function, qtest_sendf.
> 
> Static data can still be sent using qtest_send, which avoids
> the malloc/copy overflow.

Did you mean 'overhead' instead of 'overflow'?

> 
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qtest.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 

>          qtest_send_prefix(chr);
> -        qtest_send(chr, "FAIL Unknown command `%s'\n", words[0]);
> +        qtest_sendf(chr, "FAIL Unknown command `%s'\n", words[0]);
>      }

Unrelated - these days, I don't see `this' quoting much any more (except
in m4); most people have moved to 'this' quoting.  We could clean it
while touching this line, but it really doesn't affect correctness
either way.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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