[PATCH 0/2] Do not abort on log-start/stop errors

[Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>]

Hi,

vhost_log_global_start() and vhost_log_global_stop() abort the whole
qemu process on error.  Not least because vhost devices are generally
outside of qemu (i.e. use a foreign code base), that is not great, as we
can basically be forced to abort because of bugs (or maybe even properly
behaving, just unexpectedly so) in other code bases.

In case of vhost_log_global_start(), the solution is simple: Ever since
commit 3688fec8923 ("memory: Add Error** argument to .log_global_start()
handler"), it can just return proper errors, so do that instead of
aborting.

In case of vhost_log_global_stop(), we cannot return errors; but we can
just ignore them.  In the worst case, some other process will keep
logging into shared memory we have already unmapped.  That's fine.


Hanna Czenczek (2):
  vhost: Do not abort on log-start error
  vhost: Do not abort on log-stop error

 hw/virtio/vhost.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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