[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] qemu: Fix checking of ABI stability when restoring external checkpoints

[Peter Krempa]

On 09/16/13 18:57, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/16/2013 06:36 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
>> External checkpoints have a bug in the implementation where they use the
>> normal definition instead of the "migratable" one. This causes errors
>> when the snapshot is being reverted using the workaround method via
>> qemuDomainRestoreFlags() with a custom XML. This issue was introduced
>> when commit 07966f6a8b5ccb5bb4c716b25deb8ba2e572cc67 changed the code to
>> compare "migratable" XMLs from the user as we should have used
>> migratable in the image too.
>>
>> This patch adds a compatibility layer, so that fixing the snapshot code
>> won't make existing snapshots fail to load.
>>
>> Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1008340
>> ---
>>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Uggh, but makes sense.
> 
>>
>>          if (!virDomainDefCheckABIStability(def, newdef)) {
>>              virDomainDefFree(newdef);
>> -            goto error;
>> +            virResetLastError();
>> +
>> +            /* Due to a bug in external snapshot creation code, the XML saved
> 
> a bug in older versions of external snapshot creation code,
> 
> ACK with that comment tweak (and maybe even call out that external
> snapshots created prior to 1.1.3 have the bug).
> 

I've fixed the comment and mentioned the broken versions and pushed.

Thanks.

PEter

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