UPDATE: It turned out QEMU still dumped core with that patch applied. That said, I'm still interested to know how to report issues with QEMU from centos-virt repo. Thanks, Ray > -----Original Message----- > From: Xiong, Huan > Sent: 2018年6月22日 11:12 > To: 'centos-virt at centos.org' <centos-virt at centos.org> > Subject: Q: how can I request to add an upstream patch to resolve a core > dump issue? > > Hi, > > The latest version of QEMU (qemu-kvm-ev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.3.1) from centos- > virt repo doesn't have this patch: > > commit 68a9398261ca38979bbc2b7c89ed5bb044ccc9e6 > Author: linzhecheng <linzhecheng at huawei.com> > Date: Tue Nov 28 12:46:56 2017 +0800 > > qemu-thread: fix races on threads that exit very quickly > > I wonder how I can request to add it? I hit a core dump issue repeatedly, > which I believe is fixed by this patch. While I observed it on an aarch64 > machine, I think the issue is common on all arch types. > > I'd like to submit a bug report, but didn't find a category for centos-virt at > https://Bugzilla.redhat.com (I suppose I should file bug against upstream, > right?). The Virt-SIG wiki page seems to be outdated and doesn't contain > information on this. Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Ray