Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] vhost: roll our own cpu map variant

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> vhost used cpu_physical_memory_map to get the
> virtual address for the ring, however,
> this will exit on an illegal RAM address.
> Since the addresses are guest-controlled, we
> shouldn't do that.
>
> Switch to our own variant that uses the vhost
> tables and returns an error instead of exiting.

We should make all of QEMU more robust instead of just vhost.  Perhaps
introduce cpu_physical_memory_map_nofail(...) that aborts like the
current cpu_physical_memory_map() implementation and then make non-hw/
users call that one.  hw/ users should check for failure.

Stefan