Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] backends/vhost-user.c: prevent using uninitialized vqs

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 11:34:25AM -0700, Raphael Norwitz wrote:
> Similar rational to: e6cc11d64fc998c11a4dfcde8fda3fc33a74d844
> 
> For vhost scsi and vhost-user-scsi an issue was observed
> where, of the 3 virtqueues, seabios would only set cmd,
> leaving ctrl and event without a physical address.
> This can caused vhost_verify_ring_part_mapping to return
> ENOMEM, causing the following logs:
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64: Unable to map available ring for ring 0
> qemu-system-x86_64: Verify ring failure on region 0
> 
> The issue has already been fixed elsewhere, but it was noted
> that in backends/vhost-user.c, the vhost_user_backend_dev_init()
> function, which other vdevs use in their realize() to initialize
> their vqs, was not being properly zeroing out the queues. This
> commit ensures hardware modules using the
> vhost_user_backend_dev_init() API properly zero out their vqs on
> initialization.
> 
> Suggested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daude <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Raphael Norwitz <address@hidden>
> ---
>  backends/vhost-user.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>

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