Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Still TODO for 4.2?

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 16:55 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 04.01.12 at 17:29, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What are the outstanding things to do before we think we can start on
> > the 4.2 -rc's? Does anyone have a timetable in mind?
> > 
> > hypervisor:
> > 
> >       * ??? - Keir, Tim, Jan?
> 
> Apart from a few small things that I have on my todo list, the only
> bigger one (at least from an possible impact perspective) is the
> round-up of the closing of the security hole in MSI-X passthrough
> (uniformly - i.e. even for Dom0 - disallowing write access to MSI-X
> table pages), which I intended to do only once the upstream qemu
> patch series also incorporates the respective recent qemu-xen
> change.

It sounds like this issue is a blocker for the release, whereas the
upstream qemu support for pci passthrough is not necessarily. Has your
precondition for inclusion been met yet or do we need to prod someone?

Ian.



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