No need to loop if less than a full buffer is read, the next read would return EAGAIN.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- vl.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index 6f1e1ab..46c1118 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -3210,12 +3210,12 @@ static void qemu_event_read(void *opaque) { int fd = (unsigned long)opaque; ssize_t len; + char buffer[512]; /* Drain the notify pipe */ do { - char buffer[512]; len = read(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)); - } while ((len == -1 && errno == EINTR) || len > 0); + } while ((len == -1 && errno == EINTR) || len == sizeof(buffer)); } static int qemu_event_init(void) -- 1.6.6