On Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2020 00:46:26 CEST Michael Roth wrote: > > > Indeed, for that particular stable branch I would see the following 9p > > > fixes as additional candidates (chronologically top down): > > > > > > 841b8d099c [trivial] 9pfs: local: Fix possible memory leak in > > > local_link() > > > 846cf408a4 [maybe] 9p: local: always return -1 on error in > > > local_unlinkat_common 9580d60e66 [maybe] virtio-9p-device: fix memleak > > > in virtio_9p_device_unrealize 659f195328 [trivial] 9p/proxy: Fix > > > export_flags > > > a5804fcf7b [maybe] 9pfs: local: ignore O_NOATIME if we don't have > > > permissions 03556ea920 [trivial] 9pfs: include linux/limits.h for > > > XATTR_SIZE_MAX a4c4d46272 [recommended] xen/9pfs: yield when there > > > isn't enough room on the ring > > > > > > What do you think Greg? > > > > AFAIK, only regressions and fixes to severe bugs (QEMU crashes, hangs, > > CVEs) go to stable QEMU releases. It doesn't seem to be the case for any > > of the commits listed above but I had only a quick look. > > That's the main focus, but if memory leaks and other minor fixes get tagged > for stable I'll generally pull those in as well if the backport is fairly > straightforward. As that was the case with the patches above I went > ahead and pull those in. > > > > What's the recommended way for me to keep track of imminent stable > > > picks/ > > > freezes in future? > > > > Hmm good question. I'm usually notified when Michael posts the patch > > round-up and a 9p patch is already in the list, like for the present > > patch. Other than that I watch qemu-stable from time to time or the > > planning pages in the wiki. > > > > Michael, anything better to suggest to Christian ? > > I think that about covers it. You can also subscribe to the planning > pages, e.g. https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/5.0 (by clicking the > star/"add to watchlist" icon), then you'll get notifications when > additional release/freeze dates are added. Generally it will be updated > shortly before the patch round-up gets posted to qemu-stable.
Good idea! Will do that. Thanks Michael! Best regards, Christian Schoenebeck
