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From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: amit.shah@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix xbzrle vs last_sent_block update
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:24:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mfpmava.fsf@emacs.mitica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449765106-6528-1-git-send-email-dgilbert@redhat.com> (David Alan Gilbert's message of "Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:31:46 +0000")

"Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
>
> My fix (84e7b80a) replaced the last_sent_block update that I'd
> removed earlier; however it was too aggressive in the xbzrle case.
>
> save_xbzrle_page might return '0' to mean that the page didn't
> need sending since it was the same as the last sent version;
> in this case we can't update 'last_sent_block' since we didn't
> actually send it.
>
> Symptom: 'Illegal RAM offset 1018000' as we try and send a page
>         to the wrong RAMBlock;  potentially that could be a data
>         corruption if you were really unlucky.
>
> Fixes: 84e7b80a05c0c44b90533c6cd2f1db5c932ccf77
>
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-11 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-10 16:31 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix xbzrle vs last_sent_block update Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2015-12-10 16:53 ` Peter Maydell
2015-12-11 12:25   ` Juan Quintela
2015-12-11 12:52     ` Peter Maydell
2015-12-11 13:15       ` Peter Maydell
2015-12-11 12:24 ` Juan Quintela [this message]

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