Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 05/24] qcow2: Use unsigned addend for update_refcount()

[Eric Blake]

On 02/10/2015 01:28 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
> update_refcount() and qcow2_update_cluster_refcount() currently take a
> signed addend. At least one caller passes a value directly derived from
> an absolute refcount that should be reached ("l2_refcount - 1" in
> expand_zero_clusters_in_l1()). Therefore, the addend should be unsigned
> as well; this will be especially important for 64 bit refcounts.
> 
> Because update_refcount() then no longer knows whether the refcount
> should be increased or decreased, it now requires an additional flag
> which specified exactly that. The same applies to
> qcow2_update_cluster_refcount().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/qcow2-cluster.c  |  3 ++-
>  block/qcow2-refcount.c | 65 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  block/qcow2.h          |  8 ++++++-
>  3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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