Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/21] block: Handle failure for potentially large allocations

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

On 24.06.2014 17:36, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> A not too small part of the recent CVEs were DoS scenarios by letting
> qemu abort with too large memory allocations. We generally "fixed" these
> cases by setting some limits on values read from image files that
> influence the size of allocations.
>
> Because we still need to allow reading large images, this works only to
> a certain degree and we still can get fairly large allocations, which
> are not unthinkable to fail on some machines.
>
> This series converts potentially large allocations to g_try_malloc() and
> friends and handles failure gracefully e.g. by returning -ENOMEM. This
> may cause hot-plug of a new disk or individual requests to fail, but the
> VM as a whole can keep running.

Ping – is there anything missing here? This series does contain one 
patch from me, so I'm naturally interested in seeing this series getting 
merged. ;-)

Max