Re: Early 4.1.1 release for image corruption fixes?

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 04:29:15PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the QEMU 4.1.0 release has two problems that can easily cause image
> corruption with any qcow2 images (no special configuration needed to
> trigger the bugs):
> 
> 1. A locking bug in the qcow2 code. I just sent a pull request that
>    includes the fix for this. The important patch there is:
> 
>    'qcow2: Fix corruption bug in qcow2_detect_metadata_preallocation()'
> 
> 2. A kernel bug in the XFS driver that became visible by new I/O
>    patterns the qcow2 implementation started to use in 4.1. Max is
>    currently working on a workaround for this.
> 
> The Planning/4.1 wiki page tells me that a 4.1.1 release is planned for
> end of November, which isn't too far, but I was wondering if want to
> have a stable release even earlier, right after the fixes for both
> problems are in.

IMHO data corruption for our primary image format is an excellent
reason to do a stable release at the soonest viable opportunity.

Regards,
Daniel
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