vnc: 0.761 device: 0.684 KVM: 0.601 PID: 0.547 performance: 0.490 semantic: 0.415 network: 0.413 socket: 0.391 other: 0.336 boot: 0.293 graphic: 0.284 files: 0.219 permissions: 0.211 debug: 0.198 qemu-bridge-helper failure but qemu not exit When qemu-bridge-helper run failed, its parent process qemu is still alive. This is my command line: qemu-system-x86_64 -curses -enable-kvm -cpu host -smp 4 -m 4096 \ -vnc :1 \ -kernel /data/xugang_vms/boot/vmlinuz \ -initrd /data/xugang_vms/boot/initram \ -append 'module_blacklist=drm,evbug net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 ROOTDEV=rootfs' \ -drive file=/data/xugang_vms/instances/vn7/rootfs.img,format=qcow2,if=virtio \ -monitor unix:/data/xugang_vms/var/monitor/vn7.sock,server,nowait \ -netdev bridge,br=vmbr99,helper="/root/bridgehelper --ns=kvm_1 ",id=n1 -device virtio-net,netdev=n1,mac=92:99:98:76:01:07 "/root/bridgehelper" is self defined helper binary by me. But after bridge-helper exited with failure(not send fd to qemu process yet), the linux vm's console will be messed up. I checked the qemu source code(at net/tap.c) and found following snip: ===> do { fd = recv_fd(sv[0]); } while (fd == -1 && errno == EINTR); saved_errno = errno; close(sv[0]); while (waitpid(pid, &status, 0) != pid) { /* loop */ } <========= why recv_fd will infinitely wait for recv? Maybe it shall waitpid and then recv_fd ? This is an automated cleanup. This bug report has been moved to QEMU's new bug tracker on gitlab.com and thus gets marked as 'expired' now. Please continue with the discussion here: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/166