Il ven 13 dic 2024, 17:06 Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> ha scritto:

> On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 05:03:55PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 12/13/24 16:51, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > >The libnfs asynch API has changed type signature in this new version.
> > >This change breaks qemu and it wasn't immediately obvious to me how to
> > >fix it.  In particular the new API requires a buffer to be passed, but
> > >it's unclear what that would be.
> > >
> > >Old signature:
> > >
> > >EXTERN int nfs_pread_async(struct nfs_context *nfs, struct nfsfh *nfsfh,
> > >                            uint64_t offset, uint64_t count, nfs_cb cb,
> > >                            void *private_data);
> > >
> > >New signature:
> > >
> > >EXTERN int nfs_pread_async(struct nfs_context *nfs, struct nfsfh *nfsfh,
> > >                            void *buf, size_t count, uint64_t offset,
> > >                            nfs_cb cb, void *private_data);
> > >
> > >(Similar changes are made to pwrite_async)
> >
> > Looks like the buffer used to be allocated by libnfs and passed to
> > nfs_co_generic_cb:
> >
> > static void
> > nfs_co_generic_cb(int ret, struct nfs_context *nfs, void *data,
> >                   void *private_data)
> >
> > Now it has to be allocated by the application.
> >
> > (upstream commit https://github.com/sahlberg/libnfs/commit/5e8f7ce273308
> )
> >
> > >I guess this needs upstream qemu attention.
> >
> > And should it also block the libnfs update in Fedora, since QEMU is a
> > critical package?
>
> The update is currently in a side tag


Yeah, and I don't think it should be merged, unless libnfs support is
dropped from the QEMU build in rawhide.

Paolo

See the start of this
> thread here:
>
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/de...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/LEEKOAGHD2WTSFJ5BT55F4MCDR2KZ7CF/
>
> If there's a fix soon we can easily add it to Fedora.
>
> Another problem is how (or if) you want to make qemu compile with both
> the old & new versions of libnfs.
>
> Rich.
>
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