Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rtl8139: validate rx ring before receiving packets

[Avi Kivity]

On 05/17/2012 08:25 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
> Commit ff71f2e8cacefae99179993204172bc65e4303df prevent the possible
> crash during initialization of linux driver by checking the operating
> mode.This seems too strict as:
> 
> - the real card could still work in mode other than normal
> - some buggy driver who does not set correct opmode after eeprom
>  access
> 
> So, considering rx ring address were reset to zero (which could be
> safely trated as an address not intened to DMA to), in order to
> both letting old guest work and preventing the unexpected DMA to
> guest, we can forbid packet receiving when rx ring address is zero.
> 

Tested-by: Avi Kivity <address@hidden>

This unbreaks kvm-autotest.

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