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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qcow2: Zero-initialise first cluster for new


From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] qcow2: Zero-initialise first cluster for new images
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 11:29:40 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:06:36AM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Strictly speaking, this is only required for has_zero_init() == false,
> but it's easy enough to just do a cluster-aligned write that is padded
> with zeros after the header.
> 
> This fixes that after 'qemu-img create' header extensions are attempted
> to be parsed that are really just random leftover data.
> 
> Cc: address@hidden
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/qcow2.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

Stefan



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