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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] qemu-io: prompt for encryption


From: Daniel P. Berrange
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] qemu-io: prompt for encryption keys when required
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:09:06 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:32:53PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/12/2015 10:09 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > The qemu-io tool does not check if the image is encrypted so
> > historically would silently corrupt the sectors by writing
> > plain text data into them instead of cipher text. The earlier
> > commit turns this mistake into a fatal abort, so check for
> > encryption and prompt for key when required.
> 
> Doesn't that mean that 'git bisect' gives a crashing qemu-io for 3
> patches?  Should this be rearranged so that 1/5 comes after this to
> avoid triggering the abort?

I'm ambivalent on that - previously qemu-io was data corrupting
for this scenario, so crashing isn't really that much worse :-)

It is easy enough to reorder these though if that's desired.
The latter patches have no build time dep on the 1st patch, so
its trivial for Kevin to re-order when applying if he thinks it
is worth it.

Regards,
Daniel
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