Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:44:11AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Il 17/06/2014 11:03, David Marchand ha scritto: >> >>Unless someone steps up and maintains ivshmem, I think it should be >> >>deprecated and dropped from QEMU. >> > >> >Then I can maintain ivshmem for QEMU. >> >If this is ok, I will send a patch for MAINTAINERS file. >> >> Typically, adding yourself to maintainers is done only after having proved >> your ability to be a maintainer. :) >> >> So, let's stop talking and go back to code! You can start doing what was >> suggested elsewhere in the thread: get the server and uio driver merged into >> the QEMU tree, document the protocol in docs/specs/ivshmem_device_spec.txt, >> and start fixing bugs such as the ones that Markus reported. > > One more thing to add to the list: > > static void ivshmem_read(void *opaque, const uint8_t * buf, int flags) > > The "flags" argument should be "size". Size should be checked before > accessing buf. > > Please also see the bug fixes in the following unapplied patch: > "[PATCH] ivshmem: fix potential OOB r/w access (#2)" by Sebastian Krahmer > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-04/msg03538.html Another one: most devices can be controlled via a dedicated CONFIG_<DEVNAME>, but not ivshmem: it uses CONFIG_KVM and CONFIG_PCI. Giving it its own CONFIG_IVSHMEM would be nice. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
