Bug 950623

Summary: [NetKVM] Review "TestOnly" parameters and remove those that shouldn't be exposed to the user
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Yan Vugenfirer <yvugenfi>
Component: virtio-winAssignee: Yan Vugenfirer <yvugenfi>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
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Version: 6.5CC: acathrow, bcao, bsarathy, lnovich, mdeng, qzhang, vrozenfe, yvugenfi
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Fixed In Version: virtio-win-prewhql-0.1-59 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Cause: Debug parameters were exposed to the user. Consequence: User could have change those parameters without fully understanding the consequence of the actions and thus break network device functionality. Fix: Remove test parameters from device manager. Result: User no longer is exposed to debug and experimental parameters.
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Last Closed: 2013-11-22 00:07:54 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Yan Vugenfirer 2013-04-10 13:58:06 UTC 
Description of problem:

We are exposing several debug parameters for NetKVM driver. They should be reviewed and those that are not used or can cause a user confusion should be removed.

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Comment 5 Yan Vugenfirer 2013-04-10 23:29:06 UTC 
Removing "Init.UseMergedBuffers". The guest will always try to use mergable buffer (the check if the host suppors this feature remains in the code):

http://git.engineering.redhat.com/?p=users/yvugenfi/internal-kvm-guest-drivers-windows/.git;a=commit;h=ad2356ced698f02a073f2ec276f8890a423bbd5e
Comment 8 Yan Vugenfirer 2013-04-11 10:40:37 UTC 
Removing "Init.UsePublishEvents", will check host settings:

http://git.engineering.redhat.com/?p=users/yvugenfi/internal-kvm-guest-drivers-windows/.git;a=commit;h=1f4faf7957135e5732ef081b38f55ea2c7874cf5
Comment 12 Yan Vugenfirer 2013-04-11 11:24:33 UTC 
The change is for drivers for Vista and up. Windows XP and Windows 2003 will have "old" parameters.
Comment 13 Min Deng 2013-04-25 03:09:14 UTC 
   Re-test the bug on win7/8/2k8/2012 platform via build 59,the above parameters has been removed.
   Actual results,the parameters were removed
   Expected results,the parameters are removed
   So the issue has been fixed,thanks.
Comment 14 Mike Cao 2013-05-30 03:34:42 UTC 
Based on comment #13 ,move status to VERIFIED.
Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-22 00:07:54 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1729.html