Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] i386: fix handling of multiboot modules

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 05:34:43PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 02:23:09PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 08:11:58PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 10:47:47AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > > ping...
> > > > 
> > > > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 06:19:10PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > > > This short series fixes a flaw identified by coverity which broke the
> > > > > handling of multiboot modules.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Daniel P. Berrangé (3):
> > > > >   i386: fix regression parsing multiboot initrd modules
> > > > >   i386: only parse the initrd_filename once for multiboot modules
> > > > >   opts: remove redundant check for NULL parameter
> > > > > 
> > > > >  hw/i386/multiboot.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++-------------------
> > > > >  util/qemu-option.c  |  8 +++-----
> > > > >  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > 2.17.0
> > > 
> > > Any reason this hasn't been merged yet?
> > 
> > Lack of reviews, unfortunately.  I guess we don't have many
> > people familiar with the multiboot code.
> > 
> > > 
> > > This fixes a regression that, in particular, makes QEMU segfault when
> > > running kvm-unit-tests.
> > 
> > As it is a bug fix, I will try to review merge it for the next
> > rc.
> 
> Looks like it ended up missing 3.0, so kvm-unit-tests still segfault
> with the released version of QEMU :(

Please check again, as I see it merged before 3.0:


  commit 59b5552f020b739e273e969a0933c23d8f4e2284
  Merge: ccf02d73d1 dfaa7d50b0
  Author: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
  Date:   Tue Jul 17 17:06:32 2018 +0100

    Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream' into staging
    
    Bug fixes.
    
    # gpg: Signature made Tue 17 Jul 2018 16:06:07 BST
    # gpg:                using RSA key BFFBD25F78C7AE83
    # gpg: Good signature from "Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>"
    # gpg:                 aka "Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>"
    # Primary key fingerprint: 46F5 9FBD 57D6 12E7 BFD4  E2F7 7E15 100C CD36 69B1
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    * remotes/bonzini/tags/for-upstream:
      Document command line options with single dash
      opts: remove redundant check for NULL parameter
      i386: only parse the initrd_filename once for multiboot modules
      i386: fix regression parsing multiboot initrd modules
      virtio-scsi: fix hotplug ->reset() vs event race
      qdev: add HotplugHandler->post_plug() callback
      hw/char/serial: retry write if EAGAIN
      PC Chipset: Improve serial divisor calculation
      vhost-user-test: added proper TestServer *dest initialization in test_migrate()
      hyperv: ensure VP index equal to QEMU cpu_index
      hyperv: rename vcpu_id to vp_index
      accel: Fix typo and grammar in comment
      dump: add kernel_gs_base to QEMU CPU state
    
    Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>


$ git describe  59b5552f020b739e273e969a0933c23d8f4e2284
v3.0.0-rc0-80-g59b5552f02

Regards,
Daniel
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