RHBA-2024:11234 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for virtio-win is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Description

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution forLinux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packageswhich provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM.The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• [virtio-win][viomem] guest BSOD or stuck if try to resize the mem to a smaller value than the original setting value [rhel-9.5.z] (JIRA:RHEL-66540)
• [viomem] Implement VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE feature [rhel-9.5.z] (JIRA:RHEL-66563)
• [virtio-win][vioinput] Update INF to support DMA Remapping [rhel-9.5.z] (JIRA:RHEL-66564)
• [virtio-win][fwcfg] Update INF to disable DMA remapping [rhel-9.5.z] (JIRA:RHEL-66565)
• [virtio-win][balloon] Update INF to support DMA remapping [rhel-9.5.z] (JIRA:RHEL-66566)
• [virtio-win][virtio-fs] virtiofs driver should use DMA API [rhel-9.5.z] (JIRA:RHEL-66567)
• [viomem] Improved waiting for the command submission (1 second wait can fail) [rhel-9.5.z] (JIRA:RHEL-67482)
• [virtio-win][vioserial] Update INF to support DMA Remapping [rhel-9.5.z] (JIRA:RHEL-67483)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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