A corrupt virtqueue (caused by the other end screwing up) can have
strange results such as a driver spinning: just bail when we try to
get a buffer from a known-broken queue.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff -r cbd83e592664 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c      Fri Apr 04 22:42:47 2008 +1100
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c      Sat Apr 05 21:12:42 2008 +1100
@@ -184,6 +184,11 @@ static void *vring_get_buf(struct virtqu
 
        START_USE(vq);
 
+       if (unlikely(vq->broken)) {
+               END_USE(vq);
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
        if (!more_used(vq)) {
                pr_debug("No more buffers in queue\n");
                END_USE(vq);

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