[libvirt] [PATCH] Use correct location for qcow1 encryption header

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Jan 23 14:58:17 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 01:35:26PM +0100, Ján Tomko wrote:
> After the 8-byte size header, there are two one-byte headers
> and two bytes of padding before the crypt_header field.
> 
> Our QCOW1_HDR_CRYPT constant did not skip the padding.
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=block/qcow.c;h=ece22697#l41
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185165
> ---
>  src/util/virstoragefile.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/util/virstoragefile.c b/src/util/virstoragefile.c
> index 7a4f9a0..8568ebb 100644
> --- a/src/util/virstoragefile.c
> +++ b/src/util/virstoragefile.c
> @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ qedGetBackingStore(char **, int *, const char *, size_t);
>  #define QCOWX_HDR_BACKING_FILE_SIZE (QCOWX_HDR_BACKING_FILE_OFFSET+8)
>  #define QCOWX_HDR_IMAGE_SIZE (QCOWX_HDR_BACKING_FILE_SIZE+4+4)
>  
> -#define QCOW1_HDR_CRYPT (QCOWX_HDR_IMAGE_SIZE+8+1+1)
> +#define QCOW1_HDR_CRYPT (QCOWX_HDR_IMAGE_SIZE+8+1+1+2)
>  #define QCOW2_HDR_CRYPT (QCOWX_HDR_IMAGE_SIZE+8)
>  
>  #define QCOW1_HDR_TOTAL_SIZE (QCOW1_HDR_CRYPT+4+8)

ACK

I guess we can see how many people use qcow1 encryption. Zero :-) Which
is good, because it is just as awful & insecure as qcow2 encryption and
so should never be used :-)

Regards,
Daniel
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