Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] qcow2: Add two more unalignment checks

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 19.01.2015 um 21:49 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> With the series adding unalignment checks and the series reworking the
> zero cluster expansion code overlapping, the unalignment checks have not
> been implemented in the latter code.
> 
> This series fixes it.
> 
> There are other places which would require unalignment checks, like the
> offsets of L1 tables, especially for snapshots; but because it would be
> best to add these checks in the function which reads the snapshot table,
> this would make images with broken snapshots completely unusable, which
> is something I opted to avoid for now.
> 
> Ideally, we need to make the qcow2 repair function repair such cases,
> but until that is done there is not much we can do about them.

Thanks, applied to the block branch.

Kevin