[libvirt] [PATCH 9/9] Terminate backing chains explicitly

[Eric Blake]

On 10/12/2017 02:07 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Express a properly terminated backing chain by putting a
> virStorageSource of type VIR_STORAGE_TYPE_NONE in the chain. The newly
> used helpers simplify this greatly.
> 
> The change fixes a bug as formatting an incomplete backing chain and
> parsing it back would end up in expressing a terminated chain since
> src->backingStoreRaw was not populated. By relying on the terminator
> object this can be now processed appropriately.


> +++ b/tests/qemuhotplugtestdomains/qemuhotplug-base-ccw-live+ccw-virtio.xml
> @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
>      <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>        <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none'/>
>        <source file='/dev/null'/>
> -      <backingStore/>

This gets rid of a lot of terminator markers in the test XML; the code
looks like we will still generate a terminator marker when we know the
full chain, and that lack of a terminator marker is not fatal, but
merely means that we haven't specified a full chain.  It feels like a
lot of fallout, but the code with the special terminator does look
nicer, so I can live with the testsuite churn that results.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>

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