[ofw] [RFC] [PATCH 11/12] winverbs\uvp:add poll_cq_array() tointerface

[Sean Hefty]

>Applications never use this directly, it's an internal interface used by IBAL,
>the ND provider, and now WinVerbs.  You have to recompile anyone using the UVP
>interface if this structure ever changes, since the UVP will fill it as if it
>was whatever it was compiled with.  That is, winverbs won't be able to work
>with an old UVP that doesn't fill in this function, and IBAL won't be able to
>work with a newer UVP that expect to fill it in since it would overflow the
>interface buffer provided by IBAL.
>
>If the UVP checked the input version (and it was provided by callers) you might
>have some hope of handling things properly.  For the time being, you just have
>to recompile everything.

An application could be using this directly, similar to how WV does.  But,
you're right, it would cause a problem with buffer overflow.  Is the version
field in the uvp_interface_t used as input to the UVP?  What sort of versioning
is done by the UVP?

- Sean