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[PATCH 1/2] qemu-img: Fix convert -n -B for backing-less targets


From: Max Reitz
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] qemu-img: Fix convert -n -B for backing-less targets
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:59:14 +0100

s.target_has_backing does not reflect whether the target BDS has a
backing file; it only tells whether we should use a backing file during
conversion (specified by -B).

As such, if you use convert -n, the target does not necessarily actually
have a backing file, and then dereferencing out_bs->backing fails here.

When converting to an existing file, we should set
target_backing_sectors to a negative value, because first, as the
comment explains, this value is only used for optimization, so it is
always fine to do that.

Second, we use this value to determine where the target must be
initialized to zeroes (overlays are initialized to zero after the end of
their backing file).  When converting to an existing file, we cannot
assume that to be true.

Cc: address@hidden
Fixes: 351c8efff9ad809c822d55620df54d575d536f68
       ("qemu-img: Special post-backing convert handling")
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
---
 qemu-img.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c
index 6233b8ca56..89a1d11781 100644
--- a/qemu-img.c
+++ b/qemu-img.c
@@ -2503,7 +2503,7 @@ static int img_convert(int argc, char **argv)
         }
     }
 
-    if (s.target_has_backing) {
+    if (s.target_has_backing && s.target_is_new) {
         /* Errors are treated as "backing length unknown" (which means
          * s.target_backing_sectors has to be negative, which it will
          * be automatically).  The backing file length is used only
-- 
2.24.1




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