On 08/06/16 16:52, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 04:32:13PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH for-4.7] Revert "libxl: No emulated disk driver for
>> xvdX disk""):
>>> This reverts c0c099d157cc5bc942afef766cf141628a6380a1.
>>>
>>> That commit causes regression on the semantics of our diskspec.
>>> See [0] for more information.
>>>
>>> [0] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-05/msg02876.html
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
>>> ---
>>> Please review carefully about this patch. There are one commit that is
>>> of interest: ef6cb76026628e26e3d1ae53c50ccde1c3c78b1b
>>>
>>> I believe the reverting the snippet in question won't cause security
>>> issue as described in XSA-142, because the code to create IDE disk still
>>> checks if the disk is read-only.
>>
>> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
>>
>> I think this is the right answer for 4.7. In 4.8 we should do
>> something like one of the proposals being discussed in this thread.
>>
>
> Thanks. And Anthony said on IRC this patch looked good to him.
>
> I've queued this for committing to both unstable and 4.7.
CC'ing Olaf and Konrad for their information. :-)
-George
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