Re: [PATCH spice-server] utils: Fill in all possible channel names

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On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:25:21AM -0500, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 10:31:38AM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 08:20:12AM +0000, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > > > Missing some names cause some debugging messages to be
> > > > generated and some of our tests to fail.
> > > 
> > > Something I wanted to check before sending this patch is if
> > > the commit adding human-readable channel did not cause a small
> > > regression when using spice-server to create a channel whose type is
> > > not known. This can happen in somehow valid situations, if
> > > spice-protocol has a new channel type, which code tries to use, when it
> > > hasn't been added to spice-server yet. I'd even add a test case for that
> > > actually.
> > 
> > Hmm, ok, while it would be nicer not to have a warning in these cases, I
> > would say it's acceptable for now as this is unlikely to happen in
> > practice.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Christophe
> > 
> 
> Is not clear the problem.
> 
> Say that we add a channel in the protocol, the server won't use
> any channel with the new type. The only condition will have to
> try the new channel is receiving a request from the client but
> the client should not do such request as the new channel won't
> be in the main channel list. So this should happen only if client
> is broken of malicious. In this case reds_handle_other_links
> is called but reds_find_channel will return NULL and connection
> will be terminated.

Ah right, I was thinking code could create its RedChannel subclass and
hit that, but this is only possible from the testsuite as the needed
headers aren't installed.

Christophe

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