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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2023-10-16 12:35:21 -0400
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2023-10-16 12:36:55 -0400
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Merge tag 'pull-request-2023-10-12' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu into staging
* Fix CVE-2023-1544
* Deprecate the rdma code
* Fix flaky npcm7xx_timer test
* i2c-echo license statement and Kconfig switch
* Disable the failing riscv64-debian-cross CI job by default

* tag 'pull-request-2023-10-12' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu:
  gitlab-ci: Disable the riscv64-debian-cross-container by default
  MAINTAINERS: Add include/sysemu/qtest.h to the qtest section
  hw/misc/Kconfig: add switch for i2c-echo
  hw/misc/i2c-echo: add copyright/license note
  tests/qtest: Fix npcm7xx_timer-test.c flaky test
  hw/rdma: Deprecate the pvrdma device and the rdma subsystem
  hw/pvrdma: Protect against buggy or malicious guest driver

Conflicts:
  docs/about/deprecated.rst
  Context conflict between RISC-V and RDMA deprecation.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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@@ -363,6 +363,15 @@ recommending to switch to their stable counterparts:
 - "Zve64f" should be replaced with "zve64f"
 - "Zve64d" should be replaced with "zve64d"
 
+``-device pvrdma`` and the rdma subsystem (since 8.2)
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The pvrdma device and the whole rdma subsystem are in a bad shape and
+without active maintenance. The QEMU project intends to remove this
+device and subsystem from the code base in a future release without
+replacement unless somebody steps up and improves the situation.
+
+
 Block device options
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