This error is caused by a buggy guest: let's switch the device to the broken state instead of terminating QEMU. Also we detach the element from the virtqueue and free it.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org> --- v3: - detach and free element - updated changelog --- hw/net/virtio-net.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/net/virtio-net.c b/hw/net/virtio-net.c index 01f1351554aa..2c02ba8a70a4 100644 --- a/hw/net/virtio-net.c +++ b/hw/net/virtio-net.c @@ -875,6 +875,7 @@ static int virtio_net_handle_mq(VirtIONet *n, uint8_t cmd, return VIRTIO_NET_OK; } + static void virtio_net_handle_ctrl(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq) { VirtIONet *n = VIRTIO_NET(vdev); @@ -892,8 +893,10 @@ static void virtio_net_handle_ctrl(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtQueue *vq) } if (iov_size(elem->in_sg, elem->in_num) < sizeof(status) || iov_size(elem->out_sg, elem->out_num) < sizeof(ctrl)) { - error_report("virtio-net ctrl missing headers"); - exit(1); + virtio_error(vdev, "virtio-net ctrl missing headers"); + virtqueue_detach_element(vq, elem, 0); + g_free(elem); + break; } iov_cnt = elem->out_num;