Hi,
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 09:09:35AM -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> ping
>
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:41:02AM +0100, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > > > In the past CursorItem structure was stored in
> > > > RedCursorCmd::device_data field so the check was there to check if the
> > > > structure fit into that field.
> > > > Since 2ba69f9f8819daaa3d166c4c1c7e03b121b88a95
> > >
> > > A lit bit hard to follow, this one
> > >
> >
> > Yes, the mentioned patch is quite big and the topic is not much related
> > to this. However you can see that "device_data" access was removed.
> >
> > > > ("libspice: add surface 0 support") the structure is no more stored in
> > > > the field so there's no reason for this check causing only confusion.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > server/cursor-channel.c | 2 --
> > > > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/server/cursor-channel.c b/server/cursor-channel.c
> > > > index 6aea64a..a876113 100644
> > > > --- a/server/cursor-channel.c
> > > > +++ b/server/cursor-channel.c
> > > > @@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ typedef struct CursorItem {
> > > > RedCursorCmd *red_cursor;
> > > > } CursorItem;
> > > >
> > > > -G_STATIC_ASSERT(sizeof(CursorItem) <= QXL_CURSUR_DEVICE_DATA_SIZE);
> > > > -
> > >
> > > I don't see any other use for QXL_CURSUR_DEVICE_DATA_SIZE in my local
> > > workspace besides:
> > >
> > > spice-protocol/spice/qxl_dev.h:335:
> > > #define QXL_CURSUR_DEVICE_DATA_SIZE 128
> > > spice-protocol/spice/qxl_dev.h:352:
> > > uint8_t device_data[QXL_CURSUR_DEVICE_DATA_SIZE]; //todo: dynamic size
> > > from
> > > rom
> > >
> > > Is that useless now?
> > >
> >
> > Maybe but is not so easy to remove. Now, did some grep too and basically
> > nobody uses device_data field. Is not surprising as was used to store
> > spice-server data in qxl card memory... once spice-server usage was
> > gone the fields stopped to be used.
> >
> > However this now is an ABI and the size of QXLCursorCmd is part of
> > the ABI.
Would it work if we keep the struct size but removing the field?
> > Although this is the last field and QXLCursorCmd is not
> > included in any array/structures (but just pointed from the cursor
> > ring) this can cause problems. Let say for instance that the field is
> > removed. The QXL drivers will allocate less bytes and pass less bytes.
> > Now if the spice-server you are using is using the old length it will
> > check for memory bounds using the old (bigger) size. If the cursor
> > commands was allocated at the end of QXL memory region (quite unlikely
> > but not impossible) the red-parse-qxl.c code will detect an error and
> > discard the command. Not sure if this is the only issue of removing
> > the field but I think that this change is not strongly related to
> > this one and should be addresses in a follow up.
> >
> > > (hmm, checking qxl-wddm-dod)
> > > [0] https://gitlab.com/spice/qxl-wddm-dod
> > >
> > > Okay, here is also not used and header is actually duplicated (shouldn't
> > > we use the header from spice-protocol here? see:
> > >
> > > $ qxl-wddm-dod (master 1a81d6d3) $ grepi "qxl_dev" *
> > > qxldod/include/qxl_dev.h:32:#ifndef _H_QXL_DEV
> > > qxldod/include/qxl_dev.h:33:#define _H_QXL_DEV
> > > qxldod/include/qxl_dev.h:65:#define QXL_DEVICE_ID_STABLE 0x0100
> > > qxldod/include/qxl_dev.h:74:#define QXL_DEVICE_ID_DEVEL 0x01ff
> > > qxldod/include/qxl_dev.h:808:#endif /* _H_QXL_DEV */
> > > qxldod/QxlDod.h:13:#include "qxl_dev.h"
> > >
> > > Anyway, patch looks fine but we might want to do some follow ups.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, surely.
Sorry, should have been clear here that either way
Acked-by: Victor Toso <victortoso@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cheers,
> >
> > > > struct CursorChannel
> > > > {
> > > > CommonGraphicsChannel parent;
> >
> > Frediano
>
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