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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] qemu-io: Reset qemuio_blk permissions befor


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] qemu-io: Reset qemuio_blk permissions before each command
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:44:30 -0500
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On 09/15/2017 05:10 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> qemu-io provides a 'reopen' command that allows switching from writable
> to read-only access. We need to make sure that we don't try to keep
> write permissions to a BlockBackend that becomes read-only, otherwise
> things are going to fail.
> 
> command() already makes sure to request any additional permissions that
> a qemu-io command requires, so just resetting the permissions to values
> that are safe for read-only images is enough to fix this.
> 
> As a side effect, this makes the output of qemu-iotests case 187 more
> consistent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qemu-io.c                  | 13 +++++++++++++
>  tests/qemu-iotests/187.out |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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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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