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[Qemu-devel] Possible corruption on qcow2_snapshot_goto


From: Frediano Ziglio
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Possible corruption on qcow2_snapshot_goto
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 09:34:03 +0200

This function seems to be not that safe.

The first problem is that the first thing it does if free refcount
calling qcow2_update_snapshot_refcount(bs, s->l1_table_offset,
s->l1_size, -1). Now if something goes wrong (crash, disk errors) this
could lead to refcount == 0 (depending on L1 size, cache, open flags).

If table grow and qcow2_grow_l1_table needs to resize on disk it
probably will found some reference counter set to 0 (cause we already
decremented it), fail than qcow2_snapshot_goto return -EIO leaving
refcounts deallocated.

Frediano



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