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. 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.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/ZQnojJOqoFu73995@redhat.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1054981c-e8ae-c676-3b04-eeb030e11f65@tls.msk.ru/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230301142926.18686-1-yuval.shaia.ml@gmail.com/
Message-ID: <20230927133019.228495-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index c3cc12d..1c9b49c 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3843,7 +3843,7 @@
PVRDMA
M: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia.ml@gmail.com>
M: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>
-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 8b13632..ffd0a8c 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -327,6 +327,14 @@
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 55b3380..e735ff9 100644
--- a/hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_main.c
+++ b/hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_main.c
@@ -615,6 +615,8 @@
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));
