From: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/qxl: vaildate surface->data
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 05:43:53 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <797645493.25276499.1351763033457.JavaMail.root@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509241F5.8070605@redhat.com>
> On 10/25/12 14:27, Alon Levy wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
>
> Looks sane at a quick glance.
>
> But: how far we wanna take this? Add checks to qxl for each and
> every
> assert() guests can trigger in spice-server? So we end up
> sanity-checking everything twice long-term?
>
> I think instead we'll need a way for spice-server to report back
> errors
> to qxl. So spice-server would just notify qxl and go on (or stop
> processing until reset) instead of aborting. qxl in turn will notify
> the guest.
Yes I totally agree but never got around to doing it.
>
> [ The alternative would be to basically move server/red_parse_qxl.c
> into the qemu codebase. I don't think we want that because that
> would make a bunch of data structures which are spice-server
> internal
> today (for good reasons) a libspice-server ABI+API. ]
>
> cheers,
> Gerd
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-25 12:27 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/qxl: vaildate surface->data Alon Levy
2012-11-01 9:33 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-11-01 9:43 ` Alon Levy [this message]
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