Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Delayed IP packets

[Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>]

On (Thu) 29 Sep 2011 [19:41:33], Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-09-29 18:06, Amit Shah wrote:
> > On (Wed) 03 Aug 2011 [13:24:22], Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> From: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
> >>
> >> In the current implementation, if Slirp tries to send an IP packet to a client
> >> with an unknown hardware address, the packet is simply dropped and an ARP
> >> request is sent (if_encap in slirp/slirp.c).
> >>
> >> With this patch, Slirp will send the ARP request, re-queue the packet and try
> >> to send it later. The packet is dropped after one second if the ARP reply is
> >> not received.
> > 
> > This patch causes a segfault when guests wake up from hibernate.
> > 
> > Recipe:
> > 1. Start guest with -net user -net nic,model=virtio
> > 2. (guest) ping 10.0.2.2
> > 3. (guest) echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
> > 4. Re-start guest with same command line
> > 5. Ping has stopped receiving replies.
> > 6. Kill that ping process and start a new one.  qemu segfaults.
> 
> Can't reproduce, I'm not getting stable hibernation here even without
> any network configured.

With virtio devices and the patches applied?  Can you tell me what
you're seeing?

> Could you check if the recent pull request [1] changes the picture for you?

Thanks, that series fixes the problem.

		Amit