[ol8_kvm_appstream] qemu-guest-agent-15:4.2.1-35.module+el8.10.0+90415+56803fd5.x86_64

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

This package provides an agent to run inside guests, which communicates
with the host over a virtio-serial channel named "org.qemu.guest_agent.0"

This package does not need to be installed on the host OS.

Changelog (Show File list) (Show related packages)

• Wed Oct 09 2024 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-35.el8

  - hw/vfio/pci-quirks: Sanitize capability pointer (Alex Williamson) [Orabug: 37096901]
  - hw/vfio/pci-quirks: Support alternate offset for GPUDirect Cliques (Alex Williamson) [Orabug: 37096901]
  - hw/sd/sdhci: Do not update TRNMOD when Command Inhibit (DAT) is set (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 36659053] {CVE-2024-3447}

• Thu May 23 2024 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-34.el8

  - multifd: fix the multifd initialization (Elena Ufimtseva) [Orabug: 36598610]
  - hw/scsi/scsi-generic: Fix io_timeout property not applying (Lorenz Brun) [Orabug: 36604206]
  - scsi: make io_timeout configurable (Hannes Reinecke) [Orabug: 36604206]
  - target/i386/monitor: synchronize cpu state for lapic info (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 36607762]

• Mon Apr 15 2024 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-32.el8

  - Document CVEs as fixed (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 36455470] [Orabug: 36455480] [Orabug: 36455529] [Orabug: 36455489] [Orabug: 36455500] [Orabug: 36455512] [Orabug: 36455520] {CVE-2023-4135} {CVE-2023-3255} {CVE-2023-6683} {CVE-2023-40360} {CVE-2023-42467} {CVE-2024-26327} {CVE-2024-24474}
  - hw/pvrdma: Protect against buggy or malicious guest driver (Yuval Shaia) [Orabug: 35250119] {CVE-2023-1544}
  - hw/pflash_cfi01: allow smaller backing devices in postload_update_cb() (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 36378764]
  - hw/block/pflash: Check return value of blk_pwrite() (Mansour Ahmadi) [Orabug: 36378764]
  - net: Update MemReentrancyGuard for NIC (Akihiko Odaki) [Orabug: 36421467] {CVE-2023-3019}
  - net: Provide MemReentrancyGuard * to qemu_new_nic() (Akihiko Odaki) [Orabug: 36421467] {CVE-2023-3019}
  - lsi53c895a: disable reentrancy detection for MMIO region, too (Thomas Huth) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - memory: stricter checks prior to unsetting engaged_in_io (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - async: avoid use-after-free on re-entrancy guard (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - apic: disable reentrancy detection for apic-msi (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - raven: disable reentrancy detection for iomem (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - bcm2835_property: disable reentrancy detection for iomem (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - lsi53c895a: disable reentrancy detection for script RAM (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - hw: replace most qemu_bh_new calls with qemu_bh_new_guarded (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - checkpatch: add qemu_bh_new/aio_bh_new checks (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - async: Add an optional reentrancy guard to the BH API (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - memory: prevent dma-reentracy issues (Alexander Bulekov) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - util/async: add a human-readable name to BHs for debugging (Stefan Hajnoczi) [Orabug: 36425307] {CVE-2021-3750}
  - io: remove io watch if TLS channel is closed during handshake (Daniel Berrangé) [Orabug: 35595204] {CVE-2023-3354}
  - tests/qtest: ahci-test: add test exposing reset issue with pending callback (Fiona Ebner) [Orabug: 36327659] {CVE-2023-5088}
  - hw/ide: reset: cancel async DMA operation before resetting state (Fiona Ebner) [Orabug: 36327659] {CVE-2023-5088}
  - accel/tcg: fix race in cpu_exec_step_atomic (bug 1863025) (Alex Bennée) [Orabug: 36327651] {CVE-2020-24165}
  - physmem: add missing memory barrier (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 35886091]
  - qemu-coroutine-lock: add smp_mb__after_rmw() (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 35886091]
  - aio-wait: switch to smp_mb__after_rmw() (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 35886091]
  - edu: add smp_mb__after_rmw() (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 35886091]
  - qemu-thread-win32: cleanup, fix, document QemuEvent (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 35886091]
  - qemu-thread-posix: cleanup, fix, document QemuEvent (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 35886091]
  - qatomic: add smp_mb__before/after_rmw() (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 35886091]
  - aio_wait_kick: add missing memory barrier (Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito) [Orabug: 35886091]
  - hw/smbios: Fix core count in type4 (Zhao Liu) [Orabug: 35876036]
  - hw/smbios: Fix thread count in type4 (Zhao Liu) [Orabug: 35876036]
  - hw/smbios: Fix smbios_smp_sockets caculation (Zhao Liu) [Orabug: 35876036]
  - machine: Add helpers to get cores/threads per socket (Zhao Liu) [Orabug: 35876036]
  - machine: move dies from X86MachineState to CpuTopology (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 35876036]
  - machine: move SMP initialization from vl.c (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 35876036]
  - machine: move UP defaults to class_base_init (Paolo Bonzini) [Orabug: 35876036]
  - virtio-crypto: verify src&dst buffer length for sym request (zhenwei pi) [Orabug: 35724113] {CVE-2023-3180}
  - hw/scsi/lsi53c895a: Fix reentrancy issues in the LSI controller (CVE-2023-0330) (Thomas Huth) [Orabug: 35724112] {CVE-2023-0330}

• Mon Aug 28 2023 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-27.1.el8

  - kvm: Atomic memslot updates (David Hildenbrand) [Orabug: 35719844]
  - KVM: keep track of running ioctls (Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito) [Orabug: 35719844]
  - accel: introduce accelerator blocker API (Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito) [Orabug: 35719844]
  - KVM: Use a big lock to replace per-kml slots_lock (Peter Xu) [Orabug: 35719844]

• Fri Jun 16 2023 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-27.el8

  - hw/arm/virt: Add nvdimm hotplug support (Shameer Kolothum) [Orabug: 35505663]
  - hw/arm/virt: Add nvdimm hot-plug infrastructure (Kwangwoo Lee) [Orabug: 35505663]
  - nvdimm: Use configurable ACPI IO base and size (Kwangwoo Lee) [Orabug: 35505663]
  - target/i386: define a new MSR based feature word - FEAT_PERF_CAPABILITIES (Like Xu) [Orabug: 35370615]

• Thu Apr 20 2023 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-26.el8

  - migration: check magic value for deciding the mapping of channels (Manish Mishra) [Orabug: 34735462]
  - io: Add support for MSG_PEEK for socket channel (Manish Mishra) [Orabug: 34735462]
  - migration: Move channel setup out of postcopy_try_recover() (Peter Xu) [Orabug: 34735462]
  - vdpa: commit all host notifier MRs in a single MR transaction (Mike Longpeng) [Orabug: 35252234]
  - vhost: configure all host notifiers in a single MR transaction (Mike Longpeng) [Orabug: 35252234]
  - vhost: simplify vhost_dev_enable_notifiers (Mike Longpeng) [Orabug: 35252234]
  - pcie: Do not update hotplugged device power in RUN_STATE_INMIGRATE state (Annie Li) [Orabug: 35055290]
  - qga/win32: Use rundll for VSS installation (Konstantin Kostiuk) [Orabug: 35206108] {CVE-2023-0664}
  - qga/win32: Remove change action from MSI installer (Konstantin Kostiuk) [Orabug: 35206108] {CVE-2023-0664}
  - hw/display/qxl: Assert memory slot fits in preallocated MemoryRegion (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 34846087]
  - hw/display/qxl: Avoid buffer overrun in qxl_phys2virt (CVE-2022-4144) (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 34846087] {CVE-2022-4144}
  - hw/display/qxl: Pass requested buffer size to qxl_phys2virt() (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 34846087]
  - hw/display/qxl: Document qxl_phys2virt() (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 34846087]
  - hw/display/qxl: Have qxl_log_command Return early if no log_cmd handler (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 34846087]
  - virtio-blk: On restart, process queued requests in the proper context (Sergio Lopez) [Orabug: 35060530]
  - virtio-blk: Refactor the code that processes queued requests (Sergio Lopez) [Orabug: 35060530]
  - hw/intc/ioapic: Update KVM routes before redelivering IRQ, on RTE update (David Woodhouse) [Orabug: 35219223]
  - modules: load modules from /var/run/qemu/ directory firstly (Siddhi Katage) [Orabug: 34867783]
  - qemu.spec: Add post-install script for block storage modules (Siddhi Katage) [Orabug: 34867783]
  - qemu.spec: Enable '-module-upgrades' for OL7 (Siddhi Katage) [Orabug: 34867783]
  - module: increase dirs array size by one (Bruce Rogers) [Orabug: 34867783]
  - modules: load modules from versioned /var/run dir (Christian Ehrhardt) [Orabug: 34867783]
  - blockjob: Fix crash with IOthread when block commit after snapshot (Michael Qiu) [Orabug: 35118668]

• Fri Feb 10 2023 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-25.el8

  - target/i386/kvm: get and put AMD pmu registers (Dongli Zhang) [Orabug: 34641255]
  - i386/kvm: fix a use-after-free when vcpu plug/unplug (Pan Nengyuan) [Orabug: 34859902]
  - memory: batch allocate ioeventfds[] in address_space_update_ioeventfds() (Stefan Hajnoczi) [Orabug: 34538900]
  - virtio-blk: Fix clean up of host notifiers for single MR transaction (Mark Mielke) [Orabug: 34538900]
  - virtio-scsi: Configure all host notifiers in a single MR transaction (Greg Kurz) [Orabug: 34538900]
  - virtio-scsi: Set host notifiers and callbacks separately (Greg Kurz) [Orabug: 34538900]
  - virtio-blk: Configure all host notifiers in a single MR transaction (Greg Kurz) [Orabug: 34538900]
  - virtio-blk: Fix rollback path in virtio_blk_data_plane_start() (Greg Kurz) [Orabug: 34538900]
  - event_notifier: Set ->initialized earlier in event_notifier_init() (Greg Kurz) [Orabug: 34538900]
  - virtio-scsi: don't process IO on fenced dataplane (Maxim Levitsky) [Orabug: 34538900]
  - virtio-scsi: don't uninitialize queues that we didn't initialize (Maxim Levitsky) [Orabug: 34538900]
  - hw/arm/virt: build SMBIOS 19 table (Mihai Carabas)

• Thu Jan 05 2023 Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@oracle.com> - 4.2.1-24.el8

  - hw/display/ati_2d: Fix buffer overflow in ati_2d_blt (CVE-2021-3638) (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé) [Orabug: 33930374] {CVE-2021-3638}
  - tests/acpi: virt: update ACPI MADT and FADT binaries (Miguel Luis)
  - acpi: arm/virt: madt: bump to revision 4 accordingly to ACPI 6.0 Errata A (Miguel Luis)
  - acpi: arm/virt: madt: use build_append_int_noprefix() API to compose MADT table (Igor Mammedov)
  - acpi: madt: arm/x86: use acpi_table_begin()/acpi_table_end() instead of build_header() (Igor Mammedov)
  - hw/arm/virt-acpi-build:Remove dead assignment in build_madt() (Chen Qun)
  - acpi: build_fadt: adapt FADT table names (Miguel Luis)
  - acpi: fadt: support revision 6.0 of the ACPI specification (Miguel Luis)
  - tests/acpi: virt: allow acpi MADT and FADT changes (Miguel Luis)
  - Document CVE-2022-3165 as not applicable (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 34713999] {CVE-2022-3165}
  - Document CVE-2022-1050 as not applicable (Mark Kanda) [Orabug: 34132133] {CVE-2022-1050}
  - hw/acpi/erst.c: Fix memory handling issues (Christian A. Ehrhardt) [Orabug: 34779472] {CVE-2022-4172}
  - vhost-vdpa: fix assert !virtio_net_get_subqueue(nc)->async_tx.elem in virtio_net_reset (Si-Wei Liu)
  - net/vhost-vdpa.c: Fix clang compilation failure (Peter Maydell)
  - vhost-vdpa: allow passing opened vhostfd to vhost-vdpa (Si-Wei Liu)
  - hw/acpi/aml-build: Improve scalability of PPTT generation (Yanan Wang)
  - tests/data/acpi/virt: update empty file for PPTT (Miguel Luis)
  - hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Generate PPTT table (Yanan Wang)
  - tests/data/acpi/virt: Add an empty expected file for PPTT (Yanan Wang)
  - hw/acpi/aml-build: Add PPTT table (Andrew Jones)
  - hw/acpi/aml-build: Add Processor hierarchy node structure (Yanan Wang)
  - machine: Add SMP Sockets in CpuTopology (Babu Moger)
  - bios-tables-test: generate table for virt/DBG2 (Miguel Luis)
  - hw/arm/virt_acpi_build: Generate DBG2 table (Eric Auger)
  - tests/acpi: Add void table for virt/DBG2 bios-tables-test (Eric Auger)
  - tests/acpi: virt: update ACPI GTDT binaries (Miguel Luis) [Orabug: 34711916]
  - acpi: arm/virt: build_gtdt: fix invalid 64-bit physical addresses (Miguel Luis) [Orabug: 34711916]
  - tests/acpi: virt: allow acpi GTDT changes (Miguel Luis) [Orabug: 34711916]
  - acpi: fix OEM ID/OEM Table ID padding (Igor Mammedov) [Orabug: 34711916]
  - acpi: arm/virt: build_gtdt: use acpi_table_begin()/acpi_table_end() instead of build_header() (Igor Mammedov) [Orabug: 34711916]
  - acpi: add helper routines to initialize ACPI tables (Igor Mammedov) [Orabug: 34711916]
  - acpi: declare the default assignable value for the ACPI table header (Miguel Luis) [Orabug: 34711916]

• 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]