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To: Thomas Huth Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=jasowang@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.133.124; envelope-from=jasowang@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -34 X-Spam_score: -3.5 X-Spam_bar: --- X-Spam_report: (-3.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.7, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Andrew Melnychenko , Dmitry Fleytman , Alexander Bulekov , Leonid Bloch , QEMU Developers , Yuri Benditovich , Stefan Hajnoczi Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 9:42 PM Thomas Huth wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I recently noticed that we have quite a bunch of tickets against the vmxnet3 > device in our bug trackers, which indicate that this device could be used to > crash QEMU in various ways: > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues?state=opened&search=vmxnet3 > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu?field.searchtext=vmxnet3 > > Having hardly any knowledge about this device and its usage at all, I wonder > how much it is still used out there in the wild? I guess it might have been used for virt-v2v in the past. But I'm not sure what's the status now. Thanks > If there are still many > users of this device, is there anybody interested here in helping to get > these crashes fixed in the near future? Otherwise, should we maybe rather > mark this device as deprecated and remove it in a couple of releases? What > do you think? > > Thomas >