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Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released |
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Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:42:48 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 03:58:26PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote:
> Quoting Stefan Hajnoczi (2016-09-05 12:54:35)
> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 01:45:56PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote:
> > > Am 25.08.2016 um 19:23 schrieb Michael Roth:
> > > > Quoting Peter Lieven (2016-08-25 01:38:13)
> > > > > 7c509d1 virtio: decrement vq->inuse in virtqueue_discard()
> > > > > 700f26b virtio: recalculate vq->inuse after migration
> > > > Looks like these got posted during the freeze :(
> > > >
> > > > > The virtio thing is important because live migration is broken without
> > > > > the fix as 86cc089 is in 2.6.1.
> > > > Not sure I understand the relation to 86cc089. Wouldn't the check
> > > > introduced there always pass due to target initializing inuse to 0?
> > > >
> > > > Or is the issue that the fix introduced in 86cc089 is only partially
> > > > effective due to inuse not being recalculated properly on target? That
> > > > might
> > > > warrant a 2.6.1.1...
> > >
> > > This is what Stefan wrote in the cover letter to the series:
> > >
> > > "I should mention this is for QEMU 2.7. These fixes are needed if the
> > > CVE-2016-5403 patch has been applied. Without these patches any device
> > > that holds VirtQueueElements acros
> > > live migration will terminate with a "Virtqueue size exceeded" error
> > > message. virtio-balloon and virtio-scsi are affected. virtio-bl
> > > probably too but I haven't tested it."
> > >
> > > Maybe
> >
> > The virtio inuse fixes are needed for stable (v2.6.2?) so that the
> > spurious "Virtqueue size exceeded" on migration is solved.
> >
> > The error can be reproduced when there is a VirtQueueElement pending
> > across migration (e.g. virtio-blk s->rq failed request list).
>
> Thanks for clarifying. I'm planning to do a 2.6.2 to capture these, the
> patches Peter mentioned, and some other fixes that came during 2.7 RC
> phase.
>
> I have an initial staging tree at:
>
> https://github.com/mdroth/qemu/commits/stable-2.6-staging
>
> There's still a few PULLs in flight with patches I plan to pull in, but
> hoping to send out the patch round-up early next week and a release the
> following week.
Two more candidates for stable:
4b7f91e virtio: zero vq->inuse in virtio_reset()
104e70c virtio-balloon: discard virtqueue element on reset
They also deal with "Virtqueue size exceeded" errors.
Stefan
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- Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2016/09/05
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released, Michael Roth, 2016/09/08
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released,
Stefan Hajnoczi <=
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released, Peter Lieven, 2016/09/13
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released, Michael Roth, 2016/09/13
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released, Peter Lieven, 2016/09/13
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released, Peter Lieven, 2016/09/16
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released, Peter Lieven, 2016/09/27
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released, Peter Lieven, 2016/09/27
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released, Michael Roth, 2016/09/28
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 2.6.1 Stable released, Peter Lieven, 2016/09/30