[PATCH] hw/rdma: Deprecate the pvrdma device and the rdma subsystem

This subsystem is said to be in a bad shape (see e.g. [1], [2] and [3]), and nobody seems to feel responsible to pick up patches for this and send them via a pull request. For example there is a patch for a CVE-worthy bug posted more than half a year ago [4] which has never been merged. Quoting Markus: "Given the shape it is in, I wouldn't let friends use it in production" - we shouldn't expose this to our users in the current state. Thus let's mark it as deprecated and finally remove it unless somebody steps up and improves the code quality and adds proper regression tests. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230918144206.560120-1-armbru@redhat.... [2] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/ZQnojJOqoFu73995@redhat.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1054981c-e8ae-c676-3b04-eeb030e11f65@t... [4] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230301142926.18686-1-yuval.shaia.ml@... [5] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/8734z9f086.fsf@pond.sub.org/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth(a)redhat.com&gt; --- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++ hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_main.c | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 355b1960ce..ca42b89ef8 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -3815,7 +3815,7 @@ F: docs/block-replication.txt PVRDMA M: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia.ml(a)gmail.com&gt; M: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum(a)gmail.com&gt; -S: Maintained +S: Odd Fixes F: hw/rdma/* F: hw/rdma/vmw/* F: docs/pvrdma.txt diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index dc4da95329..f0c7addb1f 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -365,6 +365,14 @@ QEMU's ``vhost`` feature, which would eliminate the high latency costs under which the 9p ``proxy`` backend currently suffers. However as of to date nobody has indicated plans for such kind of reimplementation unfortunately. +``-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 '''''''''''''''''''' diff --git a/hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_main.c b/hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_main.c index 4fc6712025..ed49ce1e72 100644 --- a/hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_main.c +++ b/hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_main.c @@ -601,6 +601,8 @@ static void pvrdma_realize(PCIDevice *pdev, Error **errp) bool ram_shared = false; PCIDevice *func0; + warn_report_once("pvrdma is deprecated and will be removed in a future release"); + rdma_info_report("Initializing device %s %x.%x", pdev->name, PCI_SLOT(pdev->devfn), PCI_FUNC(pdev->devfn)); -- 2.41.0