[Spice-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: Protect outbuf from concurrent access

[Gerd Hoffmann]

   Hi,

>> A patch like the attached (warning: untested) should do as quick&dirty
>> fix for stable. But IMO we really should fix spice instead.
>
> I agree. I'm not sure I like the idea of still calling QEMU code without
> holding the mutex (even the QObject code).

I though just creating the objects isn't an issue, but if you disagree 
we can just move up the lock to the head of the function.

> Can you just use a bottom half to defer this work to the I/O thread?
> Bottom half scheduling has to be signal safe which means it will also be
> thread safe.

Not that straight forward as I would have to pass arguments to the 
bottom half.

cheers,
   Gerd