[Spice-devel] Patch to support LZ4 compression algorithm‏‏

Javier Celaya javier.celaya at flexvm.es
Mon Jan 12 08:35:27 PST 2015


Hello,
In a moment, I will send the patches that fix these problems.

El Viernes, 9 de enero de 2015 11:16:15 Fabio Fantoni escribió:
> In details:
> I tried windows 7 vm with qxl and qxl driver installed from spice guest
> tools 0.74, working good without setting lz4 compression.
> Using lz4 before this patch when arrive to windows login have always
> "broken image" and spice client crash.

The LZ4 codec does not support non-rgb images, and I forgot to check the image 
format.

> *** Error in `/usr/bin/remote-viewer': free(): invalid next size
> ...
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> ...

These problems were caused by a buffer overflow at the decoding stage.

> Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.

Nevermind your english, everything was clear. Thanks for your feedback.



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