Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH v7 1/3] block/qcow2: Fix corruption introduced by commit 8ac0f15f335

[Max Reitz]

On 15.09.19 22:36, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> This fixes subtle corruption introduced by luks threaded encryption
> in commit 8ac0f15f335
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1745922
> 
> The corruption happens when we do a write that
>    * writes to two or more unallocated clusters at once
>    * doesn't fully cover the first sector
>    * doesn't fully cover the last sector
>    * uses luks encryption
> 
> In this case, when allocating the new clusters we COW both areas
> prior to the write and after the write, and we encrypt them.
> 
> The above mentioned commit accidentally made it so we encrypt the
> second COW area using the physical cluster offset of the first area.
> 
> The problem is that offset_in_cluster in do_perform_cow_encrypt
> can be larger that the cluster size, thus cluster_offset
> will no longer point to the start of the cluster at which encrypted
> area starts.
> 
> Next patch in this series will refactor the code to avoid all these
> assumptions.
> 
> In the bugreport that was triggered by rebasing a luks image to new,
> zero filled base, which lot of such writes, and causes some files
> with zero areas to contain garbage there instead.
> But as described above it can happen elsewhere as well
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/qcow2-cluster.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>

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