Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-serial: fix ANY_LAYOUT

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:11:36PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Mon) 27 Jul 2015 [09:37:47], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Don't assume a specific layout for control messages.
> > Required by virtio 1.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
> 
> > ---
> >  hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c b/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c
> > index 78c73e5..16de50f 100644
> > --- a/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c
> > +++ b/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c
> > @@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ static size_t send_control_msg(VirtIOSerial *vser, void *buf, size_t len)
> >          return 0;
> >      }
> >  
> > -    memcpy(elem.in_sg[0].iov_base, buf, len);
> > +    /* TODO: detect a buffer that's too short, set NEEDS_RESET */
> > +    iov_from_buf(&elem.in_sg, buf, len);
> 
> Not sure why NEEDS_RESET -- anyhow, you planning on doing this?
> 
> 
> 		Amit

Definitely not for 2.4.
It's a guest bug, we need a consistent strategy for handling these.

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MST