From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <guennadi.liakhovetski@linux.intel.com>
To: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: [Q] vhost: returning misconfigured buffers
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 14:55:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200514125543.GA12665@ubuntu> (raw)
Hi,
Many vhost drivers follow a common process to obtain and verify
received buffers:
head = vhost_get_vq_desc(vq, vq->iov, ARRAY_SIZE(vq->iov), &out, &in,...);
if (head < 0) {
return ret;
}
if (head == vq->num) {
/* no buffer */
return 0; /* or -EAGAIN or whatever */
}
if (out != EXPECTED_OUT_BUFFERS || in != EXPECTED_IN_BUFFERS) {
return -EINVAL;
}
/* all good, use buffers */
vhost_add_used(...);
Which seems to me to be leaking buffers in the last error case -
if the buffer configuration was unexpected. Shouldn't drivers in
such cases also use vhost_add_used() to return the buffer?
Thanks
Guennadi
reply other threads:[~2020-05-14 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20200514125543.GA12665@ubuntu \
--to=guennadi.liakhovetski@linux.intel.com \
--cc=virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).