Re: [PATCH v2] qcow2: Assert that host cluster offsets fit in L2 table entries

[Max Reitz]

On 13.01.20 17:11, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> The standard cluster descriptor in L2 table entries has a field to
> store the host cluster offset. When we need to get that offset from an
> entry we use L2E_OFFSET_MASK to ensure that we only use the bits that
> belong to that field.
> 
> But while that mask is used every time we read from an L2 entry, it
> is never used when we write to it. Due to the QCOW_MAX_CLUSTER_OFFSET
> limit set in the cluster allocation code QEMU can never produce
> offsets that don't fit in that field so any such offset would indicate
> a bug in QEMU.
> 
> Compressed cluster descriptors contain two fields (host cluster offset
> and size of the compressed data) and the situation with them is
> similar. In this case the masks are not constant but are stored in the
> csize_mask and cluster_offset_mask fields of BDRVQcow2State.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> ---
> v2: the previous version was sent months ago but fell through the
>     cracks, so I'm resending it. I rebased it although the patch
>     doesn't need any changes.

Sorry. :-/

Thanks, applied to my block branch:

https://git.xanclic.moe/XanClic/qemu/commits/branch/block

Max

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