[PATCH] NEWS: Document crasher fix in crash in qemuDomainCheckCPU

Jiri Denemark posted 1 patch 1 week, 5 days ago
NEWS.rst | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
[PATCH] NEWS: Document crasher fix in crash in qemuDomainCheckCPU
Posted by Jiri Denemark 1 week, 5 days ago
Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index ee4eac183e..cf16d894f6 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -85,6 +85,13 @@ v11.1.0 (unreleased)
     adds corresponding devices into a per-domain profile so that AppArmor does
     not deny QEMU access to them.
 
+  * qemu: Fix crash when starting a domain on a host with unknown host CPU
+
+    On hosts where we cannot detect a host CPU model (mostly aarch64 hosts)
+    starting a domain with a custom CPU model caused a crash of virtqemud.
+
+    The bug was introduced in libvirt-10.9.0
+
 
 v11.0.0 (2025-01-15)
 ====================
-- 
2.48.1
Re: [PATCH] NEWS: Document crasher fix in crash in qemuDomainCheckCPU
Posted by Ján Tomko 1 week, 5 days ago
On a Thursday in 2025, Jiri Denemark wrote:
>Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
>---
> NEWS.rst | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
>index ee4eac183e..cf16d894f6 100644
>--- a/NEWS.rst
>+++ b/NEWS.rst
>@@ -85,6 +85,13 @@ v11.1.0 (unreleased)
>     adds corresponding devices into a per-domain profile so that AppArmor does
>     not deny QEMU access to them.
>
>+  * qemu: Fix crash when starting a domain on a host with unknown host CPU
>+

s/crash/crash in crash/

>+    On hosts where we cannot detect a host CPU model (mostly aarch64 hosts)
>+    starting a domain with a custom CPU model caused a crash of virtqemud.
>+
>+    The bug was introduced in libvirt-10.9.0
>+
>
> v11.0.0 (2025-01-15)
> ====================

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>

Jano
Re: [PATCH] NEWS: Document crasher fix in crash in qemuDomainCheckCPU
Posted by Jiri Denemark 1 week, 5 days ago
s/in crash // obviously :-)

Jirka