Re: [RFC 0/5] Clean up error handling in libvhost-user memory mapping

[Raphael Norwitz]

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On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 10:29:46PM +0000, Raphael Norwitz wrote:
> Hey Stefan, Marc-Andre, MST, David -
> 
> As promised here is a series cleaning up error handling in the
> libvhost-user memory mapping path. Most of these cleanups are
> straightforward and have been discussed on the mailing list in threads
> [1] and [2]. Hopefully there is nothing super controversial in the first
> 4 patches.
> 
> I am concerned about patch 5 “libvhost-user: handle removal of
> identical regions”. From my reading of Stefan's comments in [1], the
> proposal seemed to be to remove any duplicate regions. I’d prefer to
> prevent duplicate regions from being added in the first place. Thoughts? 
> 
> [1] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20211018143319.GA11006@raphael-debian-dev/
> [2] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/9391f500-70be-26cf-bcfc-591d3ee84d4e@redhat.com/
> 
> Sorry for the delay,
> Raphael
> 
> David Hildenbrand (1):
>   libvhost-user: Simplify VHOST_USER_REM_MEM_REG
> 
> Raphael Norwitz (4):
>   libvhost-user: Add vu_rem_mem_reg input validation
>   libvhost-user: Add vu_add_mem_reg input validation
>   libvhost-user: prevent over-running max RAM slots
>   libvhost-user: handle removal of identical regions
> 
>  subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.c | 52 +++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.20.1