[Bug 1867519] Re: qemu 4.2 segfaults on VF detach

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Title:
  qemu 4.2 segfaults on VF detach

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Committed
Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  After updating Ubuntu 20.04 to the Beta version, we get the following
  error and the virtual machines stucks when detaching PCI devices using
  virsh command:

  Error:
  error: Failed to detach device from /tmp/vf_interface_attached.xml
  error: internal error: End of file from qemu monitor

  steps to reproduce:
   1. create a VM over Ubuntu 20.04 (5.4.0-14-generic)
   2. attach PCI device to this VM (Mellanox VF for example)
   3. try to detaching  the PCI device using virsh command:
     a. create a pci interface xml file:
          
        <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
        <driver name='vfio'/>
        <source>
        <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x11' slot='0x00' function='0x2' />
        </source>
        </hostdev>
      
     b.  #virsh detach-device <VM-Doman-name> <pci interface xml file>


  - Ubuntu release:
    Description:    Ubuntu Focal Fossa (development branch)
    Release:        20.04

  - Package ver:
    libvirt0:
    Installed: 6.0.0-0ubuntu3
    Candidate: 6.0.0-0ubuntu5
    Version table:
       6.0.0-0ubuntu5 500
          500 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
   *** 6.0.0-0ubuntu3 100
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  - What you expected to happen: 
    PCI device detached without any errors.

  - What happened instead:
    getting the errors above and he VM stuck

  additional info:
  after downgrading the libvirt0 package and all the dependent packages to 5.4 the previous, version, seems that the issue disappeared

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