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    spice-qemu-char: vmc_write: Don't write more bytes then we're asked too · 75c439bc
    Hans de Goede authored
    
    
    This one took me eons to debug, but I've finally found it now, oh well.
    
    The usage of the MIN macro in this line:
        last_out = MIN(len, qemu_chr_be_can_write(scd->chr));
    
    Causes qemu_chr_be_can_write to be called *twice*, since the MIN macro
    evaluates its arguments twice (bad MIN macro, bad!). And the result of
    the call can change between the 2 calls since the guest may have consumed
    some data from the virtio ringbuffer between the calls!
    
    When this happens it is possible for qemu_chr_be_can_write to return less
    then len in the call made for the comparision, and then to return more then
    len in the actual call for the return-value of MIN, after which we will end
    up writing len data + some extra garbage, not good.
    
    This patch fixes this by only calling qemu_chr_be_can_write once.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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