[ol8_kvm_appstream] qemu-kvm-common-15:4.2.1-22.module+el8.7.0+20889+ec3df884.x86_64

qemu-kvm is an open source virtualizer that provides hardware emulation for
the KVM hypervisor.

This package provides documentation and auxiliary programs used with qemu-kvm.

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• Tue Nov 29 2022 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-22.el8

  - Revert "block: Set the name of BlockBackend if possible" (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 34841102]
  - Revert "iotests: Adjust 186.out to account for 'null' node-name" (Joe Jin) [Orabug: 34841102]

• Mon Oct 10 2022 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-21.el8

  - qemu-kvm.spec: Fix the qemu-regdump sos report plugin path (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 34680062]
  - qmp-regdump: Require python3 on OL8 (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 34672256]
  - iotests: Adjust 186.out to account for 'null' node-name (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 34447388]
  - block: Set the name of BlockBackend if possible (Annie Li) [Orabug: 34447388]
  - acpi: Update _DSM method in expected files (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - acpi/gpex: Fix cca attribute check for pxb device (Xingang Wang) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - acpi: Enable pxb unit-test for ARM virt machine (Jiahui Cen) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - Kconfig: Compile PXB for ARM_VIRT (Jiahui Cen) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - acpi/gpex: Exclude pxb's resources from PCI0 (Jiahui Cen) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - acpi/gpex: Inform os to keep firmware resource map (Jiahui Cen) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - acpi: Add addr offset in build_crs (Jiahui Cen) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - unit-test: Add testcase for pxb (Yubo Miao) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - acpi: Align the size to 128k (Yubo Miao) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - acpi/gpex: Build tables for pxb (Yubo Miao) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - acpi: Extract crs build form acpi_build.c (Yubo Miao) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - hw/arm/virt: Write extra pci roots into fw_cfg (Jiahui Cen) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - fw_cfg: Refactor extra pci roots addition (Jiahui Cen) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - acpi/gpex: Extract two APIs from acpi_dsdt_add_pci (Yubo Miao) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - arm: use acpi_dsdt_add_gpex (Gerd Hoffman) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - acpi: add acpi_dsdt_add_gpex (Gerd Hoffman) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - acpi: Allow DSDT acpi table changes (Jiahui Cen) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - move MemMapEntry (Gerd Hoffman) [Orabug: 34616322]
  - scsi/lsi53c895a: really fix use-after-free in lsi_do_msgout (CVE-2022-0216) (Mauro Matteo Cascella) [Orabug: 34353672] {CVE-2022-0216}
  - scsi/lsi53c895a: fix use-after-free in lsi_do_msgout (CVE-2022-0216) (Mauro Matteo Cascella) [Orabug: 34353672] {CVE-2022-0216}
  - tests/qtest: Add fuzz-lsi53c895a-test (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 34353672] {CVE-2022-0216}
  - hw/scsi/lsi53c895a: Do not abort when DMA requested and no data queued (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 34353672] {CVE-2022-0216}
  - vfio: defer to commit kvm irq routing when enable msi/msix (Mike Longpeng) [Orabug: 34419422]
  - vfio: simplify the failure path in vfio_msi_enable (Mike Longpeng) [Orabug: 34419422]
  - vfio: move re-enabling INTX out of the common helper (Mike Longpeng) [Orabug: 34419422]
  - vfio: simplify the conditional statements in vfio_msi_enable (Mike Longpeng) [Orabug: 34419422]
  - kvm/msi: do explicit commit when adding msi routes (Mike Longpeng) [Orabug: 34419422]
  - kvm-irqchip: introduce new API to support route change (Mike Longpeng) [Orabug: 34419422]
  - event_notifier: handle initialization failure better (Maxim Levitsky) [Orabug: 34419422]
  - qmp-regdump: use QMP command 'query-cpus-fast' (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 34510460]

• Wed Aug 31 2022 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-20.el8

  - vl: Add an -action option to override MCE handling (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 34538907]
  - vl: Add an -action option specifying response to guest events (Alejandro Jimenez) [Orabug: 34538907]
  - qmp: generalize watchdog-set-action to -no-reboot/-no-shutdown (Alejandro Jimenez) [Orabug: 34538907]

• Thu Aug 18 2022 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-19.el8

  - virtio-net: handle zero mac for a vdpa peer (Cindy Lu) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - virtio-net: don't handle mq request in userspace handler for vhost-vdpa (Si-Wei Liu) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: change name and polarity for vhost_vdpa_one_time_request() (Si-Wei Liu) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: backend feature should set only once (Si-Wei Liu) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-net: fix improper cleanup in vhost_net_start (Si-Wei Liu) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: fix improper cleanup in net_init_vhost_vdpa (Si-Wei Liu) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - virtio-net: align ctrl_vq index for non-mq guest for vhost_vdpa (Si-Wei Liu) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - virtio-net: setup vhost_dev and notifiers for cvq only when feature is negotiated (Si-Wei Liu) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - virtio: fix the condition for iommu_platform not supported (Halil Pasic) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vdpa: Make ncs autofree (Eugenio Pérez) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: make notifiers _init()/_uninit() symmetric (Laurent Vivier) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - hw/virtio: vdpa: Fix leak of host-notifier memory-region (Laurent Vivier) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: stick to -errno error return convention (Roman Kagan) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vdpa: Add dummy receive callback (Eugenio Pérez) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vdpa: Check for existence of opts.vhostdev (Eugenio Pérez) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost: Fix last vq queue index of devices with no cvq (Eugenio Pérez) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost: Rename last_index to vq_index_end (Eugenio Pérez) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - net/vhost-vdpa: fix memory leak in vhost_vdpa_get_max_queue_pairs() (Stefano Garzarella) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: multiqueue support (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - virtio-net: vhost control virtqueue support (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost: record the last virtqueue index for the virtio device (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - virtio-net: use "queue_pairs" instead of "queues" when possible (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-net: control virtqueue support (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - net: introduce control client (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: let net_vhost_vdpa_init() returns NetClientState * (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: prepare for the multiqueue support (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: classify one time request (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: open device fd in net_init_vhost_vdpa() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vdpa: Check for iova range at mappings changes (Eugenio Pérez) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vdpa: Add vhost_vdpa_section_end (Eugenio Pérez) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - net/vhost-vdpa: Fix device compatibility check (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - net/vhost-user: Fix device compatibility check (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - net: Introduce NetClientInfo.check_peer_type() (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: remove the unncessary queue_index assignment (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: fix the wrong assertion in vhost_vdpa_init() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: tweak the error label in vhost_vdpa_add() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: fix leaking of vhost_net in vhost_vdpa_add() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: don't cleanup twice in vhost_vdpa_add() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: remove the unnecessary check in vhost_vdpa_add() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost_net: do not assume nvqs is always 2 (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost: use unsigned int for nvqs (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost_net: remove the meaningless assignment in vhost_net_start_one() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: correctly return err in vhost_vdpa_set_backend_cap() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: remove unused variable "acked_features" (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost: correctly detect the enabling IOMMU (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - virtio-pci: implement iommu_enabled() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - virtio-bus: introduce iommu_enabled() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - hw/virtio: Fix leak of host-notifier memory-region (Yajun Wu) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: Do not send empty IOTLB update batches (Eugenio Pérez) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: remove the unused vhost_vdpa_get_acked_features() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: don't initialize backend_features (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: map virtqueue notification area if possible (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: skip ram device from the IOTLB mapping (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: Remove redundant declaration of address_space_memory (Xie Yongji) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - virtio: Fail if iommu_platform is requested, but unsupported (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - vhost-vdpa: Make vhost_vdpa_get_device_id() static (Zenghui Yu) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - Update linux headers to 5.11-rc2 (Eric Farman) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - linux-headers: update against 5.10-rc1 (Matthew Rosato) [Orabug: 34137522]
  - linux headers: sync to 5.9-rc7 (Andrew Jones) [Orabug: 34137522]

• Thu Jun 30 2022 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-18.el8

  - block: introduce max_hw_iov for use in scsi-generic (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33785156]
  - file-posix: try BLKSECTGET on block devices too, do not round to power of 2 (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33785156]
  - block: add max_hw_transfer to BlockLimits (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33785156]
  - block-backend: align max_transfer to request alignment (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33785156]
  - osdep: provide ROUND_DOWN macro (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33785156]
  - scsi-generic: pass max_segments via max_iov field in BlockLimits (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33785156]
  - file-posix: fix max_iov for /dev/sg devices (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33785156]
  - display/qxl-render: fix race condition in qxl_cursor (CVE-2021-4207) (Mauro Matteo Cascella) [Orabug: 34049511] {CVE-2021-4207}
  - ui/cursor: fix integer overflow in cursor_alloc (CVE-2021-4206) (Mauro Matteo Cascella) [Orabug: 34049509] {CVE-2021-4206}
  - hw/block/fdc: Prevent end-of-track overrun (CVE-2021-3507) (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 32860387] {CVE-2021-3507}
  - pc: q35: Bump max_cpus to 512 (Suravee Suthikulpanit) [Orabug: 34314249]
  - tests/qtest: fix pvpanic-pci-test (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 34284763]
  - libqos: pci-pc: use 32-bit write for EJ register (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 34284758]
  - libqos: usb-hcd-ehci: use 32-bit write for config register (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 34284768]
  - target/i386/kvm: Fix disabling MPX on "-cpu host" with MPX-capable host (Maciej S. Szmigiero) [Orabug: 33528615]
  - i386: Mask SVM features if nested SVM is disabled (Eduardo Habkost) [Orabug: 33860224]
  - ide: Cap LBA28 capacity announcement to 2^28-1 (Samuel Thibault) [Orabug: 25327652]
  - tests/acpi: update expected arm/virt tables (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 34132842]

• Tue May 03 2022 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-17.el8

  - arm/acpi: fix an out of spec _UID for PCI root (Michael S. Tsirkin)
  - arm/acpi: fix duplicated _UID of PCI interrupt link devices (Heyi Guo)
  - arm/acpi: fix PCI _PRT definition (Heyi Guo)
  - docs: fix references to docs/devel/atomics.rst (Stefano Garzarella) [Orabug: 33659123]
  - rcu: do not mention atomic_mb_read/set in documentation (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33659123]
  - atomics: update documentation (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33659123]
  - atomics: convert to reStructuredText (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33659123]
  - async: use explicit memory barriers (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33659123]
  - aio-wait: delegate polling of main AioContext if BQL not held (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33659123]
  - qapi: Add '@allow-write-only-overlay' feature for 'blockdev-snapshot' (Peter Krempa) [Orabug: 33888021]
  - iotests: Add iothread cases to 155 (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 33888021]
  - block: Fix cross-AioContext blockdev-snapshot (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 33888021]
  - iotests: Test mirror with temporarily disabled target backing file (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 33888021]
  - iotests: Fix run_job() with use_log=False (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 33888021]
  - block: Relax restrictions for blockdev-snapshot (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 33888021]
  - block: Make bdrv_get_cumulative_perm() public (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 33888021]
  - iotests: Use complete_and_wait() in 155 (Max Reitz) [Orabug: 33888021]
  - iotests: Support job-complete in run_job() (Kevin Wolf) [Orabug: 33888021]
  - linux-headers: update again to 5.8 (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 34022218]
  - virtio-net: fix map leaking on error during receive (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 33941879] {CVE-2022-26353}
  - vhost-vsock: detach the virqueue element in case of error (Stefano Garzarella) [Orabug: 33941844] {CVE-2022-26354}
  - virtio-net: fix use after unmap/free for sg (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 33972912] {CVE-2021-3748}
  - migration: Report the error returned when save_live_iterate fails (David Edmondson)

• Tue Mar 08 2022 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-16.el8

  - Document CVE-2021-4145 as fixed (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 33791496] {CVE-2021-4145}
  - migration: Tally pre-copy, downtime and post-copy bytes independently (David Edmondson)
  - migration: Introduce ram_transferred_add() (David Edmondson)
  - ACPI ERST: specification for ERST support (Eric DeVolder)
  - ACPI ERST: step 6 of bios-tables-test.c (Eric DeVolder)
  - ACPI ERST: bios-tables-test testcase (Eric DeVolder)
  - ACPI ERST: qtest for ERST (Eric DeVolder)
  - ACPI ERST: create ACPI ERST table for pc/x86 machines (Eric DeVolder)
  - ACPI ERST: build the ACPI ERST table (Eric DeVolder)
  - ACPI ERST: support for ACPI ERST feature (Eric DeVolder)
  - ACPI ERST: header file for ERST (Eric DeVolder)
  - ACPI ERST: PCI device_id for ERST (Eric DeVolder)
  - ACPI ERST: bios-tables-test.c steps 1 and 2 (Eric DeVolder)
  - ACPI: cleanup bios-tables-test state (Eric DeVolder)
  - KVM: x86: believe what KVM says about WAITPKG (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33832295]
  - cputlb: destroy CPUTLB with tlb_destroy (Emilio G. Cota) [Orabug: 33428107]

• Wed Jan 19 2022 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-15.el8

  - qemu-kvm.spec: Add support for reading vmdk, vhdx, vpc, https, and ssh disk image formats from qemu-kvm (Karl Heubaum) [Orabug: 33741340]
  - Document CVE-2021-4158 and CVE-2021-3947 as fixed (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 33719302] [Orabug: 33754145] {CVE-2021-4158} {CVE-2021-3947}
  - hw/block/fdc: Kludge missing floppy drive to fix CVE-2021-20196 (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 32439466] {CVE-2021-20196}
  - hw/block/fdc: Extract blk_create_empty_drive() (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 32439466] {CVE-2021-20196}
  - net: vmxnet3: validate configuration values during activate (CVE-2021-20203) (Prasad J Pandit) [Orabug: 32559476] {CVE-2021-20203}
  - lan9118: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
  - pcnet: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
  - rtl8139: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
  - tx_pkt: switch to use qemu_receive_packet_iov() for loopback (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
  - sungem: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
  - dp8393x: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback packet (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
  - e1000: switch to use qemu_receive_packet() for loopback (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
  - net: introduce qemu_receive_packet() (Jason Wang) [Orabug: 32560540] {CVE-2021-3416}
  - target/i386: Populate x86_ext_save_areas offsets using cpuid where possible (Paolo Bonzini)
  - target/i386: Observe XSAVE state area offsets (Paolo Bonzini)
  - target/i386: Make x86_ext_save_areas visible outside cpu.c (Paolo Bonzini)
  - target/i386: Pass buffer and length to XSAVE helper (Paolo Bonzini)
  - target/i386: Clarify the padding requirements of X86XSaveArea (Paolo Bonzini)
  - target/i386: Consolidate the X86XSaveArea offset checks (Paolo Bonzini)
  - target/i386: Declare constants for XSAVE offsets (Paolo Bonzini)

• Wed Dec 22 2021 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-14.el8

  - scsi: fix sense code for EREMOTEIO (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi: move host_status handling into SCSI drivers (Hannes Reinecke) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi: inline sg_io_sense_from_errno() into the callers (Hannes Reinecke) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi-generic: do not snoop the output of failed commands (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi: Add mapping for generic SCSI_HOST status to sense codes (Hannes Reinecke) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi: Rename linux-specific SG_ERR codes to generic SCSI_HOST error codes (Hannes Reinecke) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi: drop 'result' argument from command_complete callback (Hannes Reinecke) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi-disk: pass guest recoverable errors through even for rerror=stop (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi-disk: pass SCSI status to scsi_handle_rw_error (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi: introduce scsi_sense_from_errno() (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi-disk: do not complete requests early for rerror/werror=ignore (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi-disk: move scsi_handle_rw_error earlier (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33537443]
  - scsi-disk: convert more errno values back to SCSI statuses (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 33537443]

• Wed Dec 15 2021 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-13.el8

  - pcie: Do not set power state for some hot-plugged devices (Annie Li) [Orabug: 33642532]