From: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, quintela@redhat.com, qemu-stable@nongnu.org,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND] migration: catch unknown flags in ram_load
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:04:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5396BC1B.3020703@kamp.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140610073146.GJ27148@grmbl.mre>
On 10.06.2014 09:31, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Tue) 03 Jun 2014 [18:27:15], Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>> * Peter Lieven (pl@kamp.de) wrote:
>>> if a saved vm has unknown flags in the memory data qemu
>>> currently simply ignores this flag and continues which
>>> yields in an unpredictable result.
>>>
>>> this patch catches all unknown flags and
>>> aborts the loading of the vm.
>> Yes, I think that's quite nice - the only thing I'd add which would help
>> a little is an error_report() in the case where you have invalid flags
>> to let you know that's the reason for the EINVAL.
>>
>> (Having spent the day tracking down migration bugs...)
> Peter, can you please add these before we pick the patch up?
On its way.
Peter
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2014-06-03 17:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND] migration: catch unknown flags in ram_load Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-06-06 12:25 ` Amit Shah
2014-06-10 7:31 ` Amit Shah
2014-06-10 8:04 ` Peter Lieven [this message]
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