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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 3/5] block: Guard against NULL bs->drv
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 3/5] block: Guard against NULL bs->drv |
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Fri, 10 Nov 2017 15:46:08 -0600 |
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On 11/10/2017 02:31 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
> We currently do not guard everywhere against a NULL bs->drv where we
> should be doing so. Most of the places fixed here just do not care
> about that case at all.
>
> Some care implicitly, e.g. through a prior function call to
> bdrv_getlength() which would always fail for an ejected BDS. Add an
> assert there to make it more obvious.
>
> Other places seem to care, but do so insufficiently: Freeing clusters in
> a qcow2 image is an error-free operation, but it may leave the image in
> an unusable state anyway. Giving qcow2_free_clusters() an error code is
> not really viable, it is much easier to note that bs->drv may be NULL
> even after a successful driver call. This concerns bdrv_co_flush(), and
> the way the check is added to bdrv_co_pdiscard() (in every iteration
> instead of only once).
>
> Finally, some places employ at least an assert(bs->drv); somewhere, that
> may be reasonable (such as in the reopen code), but in
> bdrv_has_zero_init(), it is definitely not. Returning 0 there in case
> of an ejected BDS saves us much headache instead.
>
> Reported-by: R. Nageswara Sastry <address@hidden>
> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1728660
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
> ---
> +++ b/block/replication.c
>
> + if (!s->hidden_disk->bs->drv) {
> + error_setg(errp, "Hidden disk %s is ejected",
> + s->hidden_disk->bs->node_name);
> + return;
> + }
How would the hidden disk ever be ejected? Could this be an assert instead?
But what you have is equally safe, so
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
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[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11 5/5] qcow2: Refuse to get unaligned offsets from cache, Max Reitz, 2017/11/10