On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:56:46 +0200
Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org> wrote:

> This series is a follow up to Stefan's work to eradicate most calls to
> exit() we currently have in the virtio code.
> 
> It addresses all exit() call sites in the blk, net and scsi device code,
> where the error is about a missing or malformed in/out header sent by
> the guest. They are converted to use virtio_error() and stop any processing,
> instead of exiting.
> 
> The remaining call sites are related to a host misconfiguration or a
> migration stream issue.
> 
> The 9P code currently calls assert() instead of exit(), but it also about
> malformed or missing headers, so it gets converted the same way.
> 
> Next work will be to check all assert() call sites in the device code, in
> case some of them actually refer to a bug in the guest, and should be
> converted to use virtio_error() as well.

I'm nearly out of the door for my vacation, so don't wait for any
further R-b from me :)


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