[Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] virtio: avoid exit() when device enters invalid states

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

The virtio code calls exit() when the device enters an invalid state.  This
means invalid vring indices and descriptor chains kill the VM.  See the patch
descriptions for why this is a bad thing.

When the virtio device is in the broken state calls to virtqueue_pop() and
friends will pretend the virtqueue is empty.  This means the device will become
isolated from guest activity until it is reset again.

RFC because two things are missing:
1. Live migration support (subsection for broken flag?)
2. Auditing devices and replacing exit() calls there too

Stefan Hajnoczi (7):
  virtio: fix stray tab character
  virtio: stop virtqueue processing if device is broken
  virtio: handle virtqueue_map_desc() errors
  virtio: handle virtqueue_get_avail_bytes() errors
  virtio: handle virtqueue_read_next_desc() errors
  virtio: handle virtqueue_num_heads() errors
  virtio: handle virtqueue_get_head() errors

 hw/virtio/virtio.c         | 199 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 include/hw/virtio/virtio.h |   3 +
 2 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

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