Re: Is the fix for "DMA MMIO reentrancy" in qemu stable now?

[Thomas Huth]

On 02/03/2023 09.27, byzero wrote:
> Hi,
> The bug class of MMIO reentrancy is fixed by adding a member "memory" in the 
> struct "MemTxAttrs", but the patch only exists in 7.x version, which is only 
> release version, but not stable version. The latest stable version is 6.1, 
> and there is no stable version being released for nearly a year.  According 
> to the docs(https://www.qemu.org/download/ 
> <https://www.qemu.org/download/>): "The stable trees are located in branches 
> named stable-X.YY branch, where X.YY is the release version.".
>    So I want to know that if the patch is stable enough? Will the community 
> be possible to change the way for fixing the bug class?
>    thanks for reading this email.

 Hi,

as far as I know, there are currently no more stable releases, due to time 
constraints of the stable maintainer. So your best option is currently to 
pick the corresponding patches and apply them on your own before compiling QEMU.

 Thomas