Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11] qcow2: fix image corruption on commit with persistent snapshot

[Eric Blake]

On 11/17/2017 11:07 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> 17.11.2017 19:47, Eric Blake wrote:
>> If an image contains persistent snapshots, we cannot use the
> 
> bitmaps

Oh, right. Maintainer can fix that, if I don't need to respin.

> 
>> fast path of bdrv_make_empty() to clear the image during
>> qemu-img commit, because that will lose the clusters related
>> to the bitmaps.
>>
>> Also leave a comment in qcow2_read_extensions to remind future
>> feature additions to think about fast-path removal, since we
>> just barely fixed the same bug for LUKS encryption.
>>
>> It's a pain that qemu-img has not yet been taught to manipulate,
>> or even at a very minimum display, information about persistent
>> bitmaps; instead, we have to use QMP commands.  It's also a
>> pain that only qeury-block and x-debug-block-dirty-bitmap-sha256
>> will allow bitmap introspection; but the former requires the
>> node to be hooked to a block device, and the latter is experimental.
> 
> sorry for that pain =(.
> 
> Honestly, I don't understand why such a simple and obvious fix needs an
> additional test.

Because the test was cool!  Here's how it fails without the qcow2 fix:

--- /home/eblake/qemu/tests/qemu-iotests/176.out        2017-11-17
10:41:56.287187401 -0600
+++ /home/eblake/qemu/tests/qemu-iotests/176.out.bad    2017-11-17
10:42:07.621220260 -0600
@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@
 64 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 wrote 512/512 bytes at offset 2202009600
 512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+qemu-img: Bitmap '' doesn't satisfy the constraints
+qemu-img: Persistent bitmaps are lost for node '#block148'
 Image committed.
 read 196608/196608 bytes at offset 2147287040
 192 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
@@ -198,14 +200,11 @@
 0x7ffd0000      0x10000         TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base
 0x7ffe0000      0x20000         TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.itmd
 0x83400000      0x200           TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.itmd
-Offset          Length          File
-0x7ffd0000      0x10000         TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base
-0x7ffe0000      0x20000         TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.itmd
-0x83400000      0x200           TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.itmd
+qemu-img: Could not open
'/home/eblake/qemu/tests/qemu-iotests/scratch/t.qcow2': Bitmap ''
doesn't satisfy the constraints
 QMP_VERSION
 {"return": {}}
-{"return": {}}
-{"return": {"sha256":
"e12600978d86b5a453861ae5c17d275204673fef3874b7c3c5433c6153d84706"}}
+{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Bitmap '' doesn't satisfy
the constraints"}}
+{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Node 'drive0' not found"}}
 {"return": {}}
 {"timestamp": {"seconds":  TIMESTAMP, "microseconds":  TIMESTAMP},
"event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": {"guest": false}}


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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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