Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] iov: assert that qiov->size doesn't exceed INT_MAX

[Alberto Garcia]

On Wed 01 Feb 2017 10:56:29 PM CET, Max Reitz <address@hidden> wrote:

>> I was actually just reading virtio_blk_handle_request() and I see
>> that the I/O vector is initialized before the check for the maximum
>> request size that returns VIRTIO_BLK_S_IOERR.
>> 
>> So you're probably right and it's safer not to add that assertion.
>
> So... Apply patch 1 and hope we do everything right in the future? :-)

I think patch 1 is definitely necessary and enough to solve the crash
that I reported.

Tomorrow I'll think about what to do in place of the second one :-)

Berto