From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "Sjur Brændeland" <sjurbren@gmail.com>,
"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
"Amit Shah" <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH repost] virtio: don't crash when device is buggy
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:57:17 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehm1s28q.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120916094427.GA24075@redhat.com>
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> Because of a sanity check in virtio_dev_remove, a buggy device can crash
> kernel. And in case of rproc it's userspace so it's not a good idea.
> We are unloading a driver so how bad can it be?
> Be less aggressive in handling this error: if it's a driver bug,
> warning once should be enough.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>
> --
>
> 3.6 material?
I have already applied, this, but it's not for stable, since it's a
"theoretical bugfix". That check has been in there forever and noone
AFAIK has actually struck it.
Cheers,
Rusty.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "Sjur Brændeland" <sjurbren@gmail.com>,
"Amit Shah" <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ohad Ben-Cohen" <ohad@wizery.com>,
"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH repost] virtio: don't crash when device is buggy
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:57:17 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehm1s28q.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120916094427.GA24075@redhat.com>
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> Because of a sanity check in virtio_dev_remove, a buggy device can crash
> kernel. And in case of rproc it's userspace so it's not a good idea.
> We are unloading a driver so how bad can it be?
> Be less aggressive in handling this error: if it's a driver bug,
> warning once should be enough.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>
> --
>
> 3.6 material?
I have already applied, this, but it's not for stable, since it's a
"theoretical bugfix". That check has been in there forever and noone
AFAIK has actually struck it.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-17 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-03 13:51 [RFC 1/2] virtio_console: Add support for DMA memory allocation sjur.brandeland
2012-09-03 13:51 ` [RFC 2/2] virtio_console: Add feature to disable console port sjur.brandeland
2012-09-03 13:51 ` sjur.brandeland
2012-09-03 14:30 ` [RFC 1/2] virtio_console: Add support for DMA memory allocation Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-03 14:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-03 14:57 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-03 14:57 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-03 20:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-03 20:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 6:07 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-04 6:07 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-05 13:00 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-05 13:00 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-05 14:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-05 14:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-05 18:15 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-05 18:15 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-05 19:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-05 19:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-07 9:24 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-07 9:24 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-04 11:28 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-04 11:28 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-04 13:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 13:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 16:58 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-04 16:58 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-04 18:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 18:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 2:04 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-06 2:04 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-06 5:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-06 5:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-10 22:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-10 22:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-12 6:24 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-12 6:24 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-07 8:35 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-07 8:35 ` Sjur Brændeland
2012-09-16 9:44 ` [PATCH repost] virtio: don't crash when device is buggy Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-16 9:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-17 4:27 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2012-09-17 4:27 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-18 22:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-18 22:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-19 4:10 ` Rusty Russell
2012-09-19 4:10 ` Rusty Russell
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