[PATCH] NEWS: Mention shared FS detection race

Jiri Denemark via Devel posted 1 patch 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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git fetch https://github.com/patchew-project/libvirt tags/patchew/b4b9f992b1bab5f97346114da4a2186c6e9a947f.1768398749.git.jdenemar@redhat.com
NEWS.rst | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
[PATCH] NEWS: Mention shared FS detection race
Posted by Jiri Denemark via Devel 2 weeks, 4 days ago
From: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 9fff3173ec..958ce71375 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -96,6 +96,16 @@ v12.0.0 (unreleased)
     corresponding datacenter or datastore contained special characters (e.g.
     '+'). This is now fixed.
 
+  * Fix race when checking whether a path is on a shared file system
+
+    Finding an existing parent of a given path and checking whether it's on a
+    shared file system was not atomic and thus the path could have been
+    misinterpreted as non-shared if it was removed between these two
+    operations. This could cause migration with an emulated TPM device stored
+    on a shared file system to fail with the following bogus error::
+
+     Operation not supported: the running swtpm does not support migration with shared storage
+
 
 v11.10.0 (2025-12-01)
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2.52.0
Re: [PATCH] NEWS: Mention shared FS detection race
Posted by Michal Prívozník via Devel 2 weeks, 4 days ago
On 1/14/26 14:52, Jiri Denemark via Devel wrote:
> From: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
> ---
>  NEWS.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Michal