Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/vnc.c: Fix crash with VNC

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

Dear Gerd Hoffmann,

> On 11/09/12 10:50, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 9 November 2012 10:42, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >> While the abstract discussion is fun, it never hurts to be defensive.  I
> >> agree the root cause is vmware-vga but checking in vnc doesn't hurt.
> > 
> > Defensive programming would suggest doing the clipping in the
> > console.c layer. That sounds a reasonable plan to me (especially
> > if we've hit similar problems multiple times in the past).
> 
> Fully agree, I'll cook up a patch as I'm touching that anyway.
> 
> Question is just whenever we'll go silently fixup stuff in console.c or
> use assert()s to enforce callers getting this correct.  I'd tend to use
> assert() as vmware-vga passing bogous stuff there IMHO indicates there
> is a bug in vmware-vga.

Or rather some revisions of the guest X driver. Though it's worth investigating 
it in the right place indeed.

> cheers,
>   Gerd

Best regards,
Marek Vasut