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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] qemu-img: Cannot create fixed vhdx image
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] qemu-img: Cannot create fixed vhdx image |
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Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:55:43 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Am 20.09.2014 um 15:53 hat Michael Tokarev geschrieben:
> 18.09.2014 19:17, Adelina Tuvenie wrote:
> >
> > When trying to create a fixed vhd image qemu-img will return the
> > following error:
> >
> > qemu-img: test.vhdx: Could not create image: Cannot allocate memory
> >
> > This happens because of a incorrect check in vhdx.c. Specifficaly,
> > in vhdx_create_bat(), after allocating memory for the BAT entry,
> > there is a check to determine if the allocation was unsuccsessful.
> > The error comes from the fact that it checks if s->bat isn't NULL,
> > which is true in case of succsessful allocation, and exits with
> > error ENOMEM.
>
> Applying to -trivial, as it is an obvious trivial one-liner, hopefully
> it's okay for kwolf@ and address@hidden But please,
>
> - Cc qemu-devel and the subsystem maintainers (Cc'ed)
> - do not send an "intro" email for single patches
> - do not attach the patch, place it inline if possible
>
> (Since the original patch was in an attachment, I copy it here for
> completness:
>
> diff --git a/block/vhdx.c b/block/vhdx.c
> index 796b7bd..5bf292e 100644
> --- a/block/vhdx.c
> +++ b/block/vhdx.c
> @@ -1593,7 +1593,7 @@ static int vhdx_create_bat(BlockDriverState *bs,
> BDRVVHDXState *s,
> bdrv_has_zero_init(bs) == 0) {
> /* for a fixed file, the default BAT entry is not zero */
> s->bat = g_try_malloc0(length);
> - if (length && s->bat != NULL) {
> + if (length && s->bat == NULL) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto exit;
> }
> )
Whoops, this is what happens when you make mechanical changes manually.
And I fooled two reviewers with this code. :-)
Acked-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>