Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] qemu-img: rebase: stop when reaching EOF of old backing file

[Andrey Drobyshev]

On 11/1/23 11:50, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 19.09.2023 19:57, Andrey Drobyshev via wrote:
>> In case when we're rebasing within one backing chain, and when target
>> image
>> is larger than old backing file, bdrv_is_allocated_above() ends up
>> setting
>> *pnum = 0.  As a result, target offset isn't getting incremented, and we
>> get stuck in an infinite for loop.  Let's detect this case and proceed
>> further down the loop body, as the offsets beyond the old backing size
>> need
>> to be explicitly zeroed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Drobyshev <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
> 
> Is this change not for -stable anymore?  First version of this patch has
> been
> Cc'd to stable, this one is not.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> /mjt

Hi Michael,

Since this series is already merged in master, I'm not sure whether it's
necessary to forward this particular patch to qemu-stable, or it should
rather be cherry-picked to -stable by one of the block maintainers.

Kevin, maybe you can clarify?

Andrey