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From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Seiji Aguchi <saguchi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio device error reporting best practice?
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:57:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140317145741.GA24641@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_i-S39_254dLWv95XYTtHMLr89aKM-9fF9omTWDOmZbg@mail.gmail.com>


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:40:09PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 17 March 2014 14:28, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 03/17/14 07:02, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >> The main reason I'm considering this stuff is for security reasons if
> >> the guest asks for something really illegal or crazy what should the
> >> expected behaviour of the host be? (at least secure I know that).
> >
> > exit(1).
> 
> No thanks -- the guest should never be able to cause QEMU
> to exit (in an ideal world). Use
>    qemu_log_mask(LOG_GUEST_ERROR, ...)
> and continue.

Don't look too closely at the spice backend ...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=spice&list_id=2320267

Rich.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-17 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-17  6:02 [Qemu-devel] virtio device error reporting best practice? Dave Airlie
2014-03-17 14:28 ` Laszlo Ersek
2014-03-17 14:40   ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-17 14:49     ` Laszlo Ersek
2014-03-17 14:54       ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-17 14:57       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-03-17 19:05       ` Andreas Färber
2014-03-18 12:45       ` Kevin Wolf
2014-03-17 14:57     ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2014-03-17 14:59       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2014-03-26 12:49   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-03-17 14:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-03-19  0:34 ` Rusty Russell
2014-03-19  8:12   ` Markus Armbruster
2014-03-20  3:40     ` Rusty Russell
2014-03-20  6:39       ` Markus Armbruster
2014-03-20 12:53         ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-26 14:34           ` Markus Armbruster
2014-03-27  0:54             ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2014-03-20  6:51   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-03-21  9:44     ` Yan Vugenfirer

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