From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36489) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWkSI-000362-9G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:00:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWkS6-0007t7-Tr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:00:50 -0500 Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([86.62.121.231]:42967) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWkS6-0007ro-Md for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:00:38 -0500 Message-ID: <509CC62A.7060905@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:00:26 +0400 From: Michael Tokarev MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <509C1F16.2090808@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/vnc.c: Fix crash with VNC List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: BALATON Zoltan Cc: Marek Vasut , Peter Maydell , Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann , Gerhard Wiesinger , "Serge E. Hallyn" On 09.11.2012 03:55, BALATON Zoltan wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>> I think this is fixing this at the wrong level. Either we >>> should require that drivers (in this case vmware_vga.c) >>> must not call dpy_gfx_update() with out of range values, >>> or we should do the clipping in the console.c layer, but >>> I don't think requiring every UI backend to clip is the >>> right thing. Anthony? >> >> Agree. IMHO vmware_vga.c is at fault here and should be fixed. We can >> add some asserts to console.[ch] to enforce this ... > > Would the attached patch help? I fixed this 2 times, and I remember two other people fixing the same thing too already. Lemme find some refs... thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/166064 --- Is it the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/918791 ? At least it appears to be the same theme... But there, the patch (https://launchpadlibrarian.net/94916786/qemu-vmware.debdiff) also updates width/height. My comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu-kvm/+bug/918791/comments/21 --- Adding some Cc's....