Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] vmdk: Set vmdk parent backing_format to vmdk

[Max Reitz]

On 03.05.19 13:34, Thomas Huth wrote:
>  Hi Sam,
> 
> On 02/05/2019 15.08, Sam Eiderman wrote:
>> Commit b69864e ("vmdk: Support version=3 in VMDK descriptor files")
>> fixed the probe function to correctly guess vmdk descriptors with
>> version=3.
>>
>> This solves the issue where vmdk snapshot with parent vmdk descriptor
>> containing "version=3" would be treated as raw instead vmdk.
>>
>> In the future case where a new vmdk version is introduced, we will again
>> experience this issue, even if the user will provide "-f vmdk" it will
>> only apply to the tip image and not to the underlying "misprobed" parent
>> image.
>>
>> The code in vmdk.c already assumes that the backing file of vmdk must be
>> vmdk (see vmdk_is_cid_valid which returns 0 if backing file is not
>> vmdk).
>>
>> So let's make it official by supplying the backing_format as vmdk.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Mark Kanda <address@hidden>
>> Reviewed-By: Liran Alon <address@hidden>
>> Reviewed-by: Arbel Moshe <address@hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: Shmuel Eiderman <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  block/vmdk.c           | 2 ++
>>  tests/qemu-iotests/110 | 6 +++---
>>  tests/qemu-iotests/126 | 4 ++--
>>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/vmdk.c b/block/vmdk.c
>> index 8dec6ef767..de8cb859f8 100644
>> --- a/block/vmdk.c
>> +++ b/block/vmdk.c
>> @@ -397,6 +397,8 @@ static int vmdk_parent_open(BlockDriverState *bs)
>>          pstrcpy(bs->auto_backing_file, end_name - p_name + 1, p_name);
>>          pstrcpy(bs->backing_file, sizeof(bs->backing_file),
>>                  bs->auto_backing_file);
>> +        pstrcpy(bs->backing_format, sizeof(bs->backing_format),
>> +                "vmdk");
>>      }
> 
> Your patch with this change has already been merged into the QEMU master
> branch...
> 
>> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/110 b/tests/qemu-iotests/110
>> index fad672c1ae..982569dbc5 100755
>> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/110
>> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/110
>> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ _make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG_REL.base" 64M
>>  # qemu should be able to reconstruct the filename, so relative backing names
>>  # should work
>>  
>> TEST_IMG="json:{'driver':'$IMGFMT','file':{'driver':'file','filename':'$TEST_IMG'}}"
>>  \
>> -    _img_info | _filter_img_info
>> +    _img_info | _filter_img_info | grep -v "backing file format"
>>  
>>  echo
>>  echo '=== Non-reconstructable filename ==='
>> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ TEST_IMG="json:{
>>              }
>>          ]
>>      }
>> -}" _img_info | _filter_img_info
>> +}" _img_info | _filter_img_info | grep -v "backing file format"
>>  
>>  echo
>>  echo '=== Backing name is always relative to the backed image ==='
>> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ TEST_IMG="json:{
>>              }
>>          ]
>>      }
>> -}" _img_info | _filter_img_info
>> +}" _img_info | _filter_img_info | grep -v "backing file format"
>>  
>>  
>>  # success, all done
>> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/126 b/tests/qemu-iotests/126
>> index 96dc048d59..1f7618c8a5 100755
>> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/126
>> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/126
>> @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ TEST_IMG=$BASE_IMG _make_test_img 64M
>>  TEST_IMG=$TOP_IMG _make_test_img -b ./image:base.$IMGFMT
>>  
>>  # The default cluster size depends on the image format
>> -TEST_IMG=$TOP_IMG _img_info | grep -v 'cluster_size'
>> +TEST_IMG=$TOP_IMG _img_info | grep -v 'cluster_size\|backing file format'
>>  
>>  _rm_test_img "$BASE_IMG"
>>  _rm_test_img "$TOP_IMG"
>> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ TOP_IMG="file:image:top.$IMGFMT"
>>  TEST_IMG=$BASE_IMG _make_test_img 64M
>>  TEST_IMG=$TOP_IMG _make_test_img -b "$BASE_IMG"
>>  
>> -TEST_IMG=$TOP_IMG _img_info | grep -v 'cluster_size'
>> +TEST_IMG=$TOP_IMG _img_info | grep -v 'cluster_size\|backing file format'
>>  
>>  _rm_test_img "$BASE_IMG"
>>  _rm_test_img "image:top.$IMGFMT"
>>
> 
> ... so please just send a patch with these fixes!

I already did, it's here:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2019-04/msg00442.html

Max

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