[Xen-devel] RING_FULL() equivalent for responses?

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

during review of my qemu pvusb backend patch Anthony raised the
question why my backend doesn't check for the ring being full before
using RING_GET_RESPONSE().

I've checked several existing backends and none of them is doing this
test. To be precise: There is no macro to test this condition as
RING_FULL() is doing this kind of test for the request ring only.

A frontend generating lots of requests might be slow dequeueing the
responses so I guess it could happen that the response ring will
become full while some requests are still active. I know that at
least most of the frontends won't issue another request as long as
RING_SIZE() responses are outstanding, but I'm not aware of any
specification making this behavior mandatory.

As the result of ignoring a full response ring will affect the domU
running the frontend only, I don't think this is a security issue, but
"only" one of correctness.

Thoughts?


Juergen

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