Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu segfauls with spiceport chardev and isa-serial

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Peter Crosthwaite (peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
> <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> > (cc'ing in Peter Crosthwaite and Michael Tokarev due to a serial fifo change
> > - see below!)
> >
> > * Martin Kletzander (mkletzan@redhat.com) wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >
> > Hi Martin,
> >    I don't know about your spice warnings that triggered this but looking
> > down the backtrace I can see something odd:
> >
> >> current HEAD (2f61120c10da9128357510debc8e66880cd2bfdc) segfaults when
> >> I'm trying to do the following:
> >>
> >> I add this to qemu's command-line:
> >>
> >>  -chardev spiceport,id=charserial0,name=org.qemu.console.serial.0 \
> >>  -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0

<snip>

> Hi Dave,
> 
> Yes that does looks suss. My bad. Can you confirm your theory by
> making the proposed change? does it fix the bug?
> 
> --- a/hw/char/serial.c
> +++ b/hw/char/serial.c
> @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static gboolean serial_xmit(GIOChannel *chan,
> GIOCondition cond, void
> 
>      if (s->tsr_retry <= 0) {
>          if (s->fcr & UART_FCR_FE) {
> -            s->tsr = fifo8_is_full(&s->xmit_fifo) ?
> +            s->tsr = fifo8_is_empty(&s->xmit_fifo) ?
>                          0 : fifo8_pop(&s->xmit_fifo);
>              if (!s->xmit_fifo.num) {
>                  s->lsr |= UART_LSR_THRE;

Yep, seems reasonable; and Martin says it stops the seg;
I wonder if there are any serial tests out there - The other
failure mode this could have caused is the replacing of chunks
of outbound data by \0's if the fifo was full.

Dave
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK