Re: [PULL 0/2] Block patches for 5.1.0-rc4

[Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy]

11.08.2020 12:54, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 11.08.20 11:39, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 10:35, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > There is a bug in the backup job that breaks backups from images whose
> > > size is not aligned to the job's cluster size (i.e., qemu crashes
> > > because of a failed assertion).  If this bug makes it into the release,
> > > it would be a regression from 5.0.
> > >
> > > On one hand, this is probably a rare configuration that should not
> > > happen in practice.  On the other, it is a regression, and the fix
> > > (patch 1) is simple.  So I think it would be good to have this in 5.1.
> >
> > I'm really reluctant to have to roll an rc4...
>
> Well, that’s the information there is on this: Regression, simple fix,
> but little relevance in practice, and late to the party.
> If, given this, you don’t want to roll an rc4, then that’s how it is.

Recently bug was reproduced by accidentally starting backup with source = cdrom 
(image was not 64k-cluster aligned).

Fedora 33, Rhel/Centos 8 are affected.

Could this go to stable branch?

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Best regards,
Vladimir