From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@virtuozzo.com>
To: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
"Andrey Drobyshev" <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, philmd@oss.qualcomm.com, den@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] hw/display/qxl: Avoid crashing on stale guest addresses in qxl_post_load
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:26:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adf69f78-6fbb-4b77-a1cf-e652e906cdc8@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+F1CKwNr=6wVaO+tXa876EzoPjYfQC3qx=em3C4BSW7wRC8Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/26/26 10:10, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi Andrey
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 9:26 PM Andrey Drobyshev
> <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>> We've experienced crashes when spice-server aborts on migration target
>> when processing an invalid/stale guest address pointer. While those are
>> hard to reproduce, it seems they can be fairly easily avoided by simply
>> skipping commands with invalid addresses in qxl_post_load.
> I would rather try to find the root cause, rather than applying a
> post-load workaround. It may be related to this issue
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/3766 (confidential):
> there is a lack of resource tracking, when a guest release
> slot/cursors etc, the track commands may not be correctly updated - or
> preventing resource release. Unfortunately, spice/qxl is no longer
> maintained - we should clearly mark this device as unsecure imho.
Unfortunately we do not have access to this item in gitlab.
Can you grant it at least to den@openvz.org?
Den
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-26 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-25 17:20 [PATCH 0/3] hw/display/qxl: Avoid crashing on stale guest addresses in qxl_post_load Andrey Drobyshev
2026-08-25 17:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] hw/display/qxl: factor out qxl_guest_phys2virt() Andrey Drobyshev
2026-08-25 17:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] hw/display/qxl: validate replayed commands in qxl_post_load Andrey Drobyshev
2026-08-25 17:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] hw/display/qxl: trace skipped stale loadvm commands Andrey Drobyshev
2026-08-26 8:10 ` [PATCH 0/3] hw/display/qxl: Avoid crashing on stale guest addresses in qxl_post_load Marc-André Lureau
2026-08-26 9:47 ` Andrey Drobyshev
2026-08-26 13:26 ` Denis V. Lunev [this message]
2026-09-12 11:52 ` Marc-André Lureau
2026-09-14 13:57 ` Michael Tokarev
2026-09-14 14:11 ` Andrey Drobyshev
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