Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] virtio: Allow .get_vhost() without vhost_started

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 06:39:39PM +0200, Hanna Czenczek wrote:
> Historically, .get_vhost() was probably only called when
> vdev->vhost_started is true.  However, we now decidedly want to call it
> also when vhost_started is false, specifically so we can issue a reset
> to the vhost back-end while device operation is stopped.
> 
> Some .get_vhost() implementations dereference some pointers (or return
> offsets from them) that are probably guaranteed to be non-NULL when
> vhost_started is true, but not necessarily otherwise.  This patch makes
> all such implementations check all such pointers, returning NULL if any
> is NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio.h  |  1 +
>  hw/display/vhost-user-gpu.c |  2 +-
>  hw/net/virtio-net.c         | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
>  hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c   | 18 +++++++++++++++---
>  4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

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