It was never correct to not clear them. Due to commit "3912e66a3feb virtio-vga: fix reset." this became more obvious though. The virtio rings get properly reset now, and trying to process the stale commands will trigger an assert in the virtio core.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> --- hw/display/virtio-gpu.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/display/virtio-gpu.c b/hw/display/virtio-gpu.c index fbd8d908ad32..cdab327658d2 100644 --- a/hw/display/virtio-gpu.c +++ b/hw/display/virtio-gpu.c @@ -1356,6 +1356,7 @@ static void virtio_gpu_reset(VirtIODevice *vdev) { VirtIOGPU *g = VIRTIO_GPU(vdev); struct virtio_gpu_simple_resource *res, *tmp; + struct virtio_gpu_ctrl_command *cmd; int i; g->enable = 0; @@ -1372,6 +1373,12 @@ static void virtio_gpu_reset(VirtIODevice *vdev) g->scanout[i].ds = NULL; } + while (!QTAILQ_EMPTY(&g->cmdq)) { + cmd = QTAILQ_FIRST(&g->cmdq); + QTAILQ_REMOVE(&g->cmdq, cmd, next); + g_free(cmd); + } + #ifdef CONFIG_VIRGL if (g->use_virgl_renderer) { if (g->renderer_blocked) { -- 2.18.1