On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 09:43:17PM +0300, Uri Lublin wrote: > bitmap_consistent should return true or false. > Currently it aborts instead of returning false, due to spice_error. > Replacing spice_error with spice_warning, provides information and returns > false, as expected. > > This fixes Fedora bz#997932 The issue being fixed here is a security flaw, since it allows an unprivileged users in the guest OS to crash the entire QEMU process in the host. It is really bad practice to do security fixes without the commit message explicitly saying that it is a security fix. People using spice need to know so that they can apply it to any old branches they may have. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel