Re: [PATCH 0/6] virtio-console: spec compliance fixes

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On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 08:24:30PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Thu) 03 May 2018 [22:28:32], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 05:45:29AM +0200, Amit Shah wrote:
> > > (apologies if you received a dup)
> > > 
> > > On (Tue) 24 Apr 2018 [21:41:29], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 09:17:59PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > > Turns out virtio console tries to take a buffer out of an active vq.
> > > > > Works by sheer luck, and is explicitly forbidden by spec.  And while
> > > > > going over it I saw that error handling is also broken -
> > > > > failure is easy to trigger if I force allocations to fail.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Lightly tested.
> > > > 
> > > > Amit - any feedback before I push these patches?
> > > 
> > > The changes look good spec-wise.
> > > 
> > > There are a bunch of tests in avocado-vt that test virtio-console
> > > functionality.  Can you give those a try before pushing?
> > > 
> > > 		Amit
> > 
> > I pushed before I did that test, will try to find the time later.  BTW
> > do you still want to be on the maintainers list?
> 
> Yes, I want to be on the maintainers list; but won't mind
> co-maintainers.  The recent changes seem to be spec-related, and I'd
> expect you to have a good handle on that anyway.
> 
> 		Amit

If you can do extra testing that would be appreciated though.

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