Re: [PULL v2 00/15] NBD patches through 2026-10-08

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 10:02:46AM +0200, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 10/12/26 23:29, Eric Blake wrote:
> > The following changes since commit 615ece3c406b262996e569f29ea6eed0d81c4d8d:
> > 
> >    Merge tag 'for-upstream' ofhttps://gitlab.com/bonzini/qemu into staging (2026-10-09 15:49:53 +0200)
> > 
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> > 
> >    https://gitlab.com/ebblake/qemu.git tags/pull-nbd-2026-10-08-v2
> > 
> > for you to fetch changes up to 3d794bcd554c3dc196685faf382fdffe7243e674:
> > 
> >    iotests/iothreads-nbd-export: Skip on s390 (2026-10-12 16:23:50 -0500)
> > 
> > [v2: sending only the updated cover letter and patch 2/15]
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > NBD patches through 2026-10-08
> > 
> > Several fixes, including:
> > - Eric Blake: Update MAINTAINERS, support qemu-nbd -s -l
> > - Fiona Ebner: Report flush error on qemu-img convert
> > - Guillaume Vinke: Fix NBD client on dead connection
> > - Denis V. Lunev: Fix postcopy dirty bitmap migration
> > - Eric Farman: Several iotest improvements
> 
> This still has 13 job failures, including check-python-minreqs.
> 
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/pipelines/2945631627

Looks like most of the failures were due to the later runners being
canceled after the early failure of the check-python-minreqs syntax
check failure. At any rate, I figured out how to patch that one and
will be posting v3 shortly.

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************* Module tests.migrate-bitmaps-postcopy-test
tests/migrate-bitmaps-postcopy-test:146:8: W0201: Attribute 'drive1_sha256' defined outside __init__ (attribute-defined-outside-init)

Fixed by:
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/migrate-bitmaps-postcopy-test b/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/migrate-bitmaps-postcopy-test
index bada325e017..53f7dafc79a 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/migrate-bitmaps-postcopy-test
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/migrate-bitmaps-postcopy-test
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ class TestDirtyBitmapPostcopyMigration(iotests.QMPTestCase):
                                                           'discard=unmap')
         self.vm_b = iotests.VM(path_suffix='b').add_drive(disk_b,
                                                           'discard=unmap')
+        self.drive1_sha256 = ""
         # A bitmap on a second node makes postcopy switch nodes after setup
         self.vm_a.add_drive(disk_a1)
         self.vm_b.add_drive(disk_b1)


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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
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