"Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote: > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> > > Badly formatted migration streams can go undetected or produce > misleading errors due to a lock of checking at the end of sections. > In particular a section that adds an extra 0x00 at the end > causes what looks like a normal end of stream and thus doesn't produce > any errors, and something that ends in a 0x01..0x04 kind of look > like real section headers and then fail when the section parser tries > to figure out which section they are. This is made worse by the > choice of 0x00..0x04 being small numbers that are particularly common > in normal section data. > > This patch adds a section footer consisting of a marker (0x7e - ~) > followed by the section-id that was also sent in the header. If > they mismatch then it throws an error explaining which section was > being loaded. > > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com>
