Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch Round-up for stable 1.4.2, freeze on Monday

[mdroth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:46:15AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > The following new patches are queued for QEMU stable v1.4.2:
> >
> > https://github.com/mdroth/qemu/commits/stable-1.4-staging
> >
> > The release is planned for 05-24-2013:
> >
> > http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.4
> >
> > Please CC qemu-stable@nongnu.org on any patches you think should be
> > included in the release. The cut-off date is 05-20-2013 for new patches.
> >
> > Testing/feedback is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> Michael,
> 
> I have one patch in my 1.4 stable queue.
> 
> From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:58:13 +0000 (+0100)
> Subject: qemu-iotests: add tests for rebasing zero clusters
> X-Git-Url: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=acbf30ec601b1f817febc4500025b7c4181312c4
> 
> qemu-iotests: add tests for rebasing zero clusters
> 
> If zero clusters are erroneously treated as unallocated, "qemu-img rebase"
> will copy the backing file's contents onto the cluster.
> 
> The bug existed also in image streaming, but since the root cause was in
> qcow2's is_allocated implementation it is enough to test it with qemu-img.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> 
> It only adds a test for something that was fixed in 1.4.1 (maybe was fixed
> by the final 1.4.0 release I can't recall).

Thanks, pushed this to staging along with what should be all outstanding
patches noted so far.

> 
> -- 
> Doug Goldstein