[libvirt] [PATCH v2] storage: Adjust expected format for Disk startup processing

[John Ferlan]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464313

If a Disk pool was defined/created using XML that either didn't
specify a specific format or specified format type='unknown', then
restarting a pool after an initial disk backend build with overwrite
would fail after a libvirtd restart for a non-autostarted pool.

This is because the persistent pool data is not updated during pool
build w/ overwrite processing to have the VIR_STORAGE_POOL_DISK_DOS
default format.

So in addition to the alteration done during disk build processing,
alter the default expectation for disk startup to be DOS if nothing
has been defined yet. That will either succeed if the pool had been
successfully built previously using the default DOS format or fail
with a message indicating the format is something else that does not
match the expect format 'dos'.

Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
---

 v1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-September/msg00124.html

 Changes since v1... 

   * Use a totally different methodology. Rather than updating the
     persistent config file, alter the start processing to handle the
     unknown setting in the persistent file properly.

 src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c b/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
index e8f67bb00..bce3b4e2a 100644
--- a/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
+++ b/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c
@@ -446,8 +446,7 @@ static int
 virStorageBackendDiskStartPool(virConnectPtr conn ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
                                virStoragePoolObjPtr pool)
 {
-    const char *format =
-        virStoragePoolFormatDiskTypeToString(pool->def->source.format);
+    const char *format;
     const char *path = pool->def->source.devices[0].path;
 
     virWaitForDevices();
@@ -458,6 +457,9 @@ virStorageBackendDiskStartPool(virConnectPtr conn ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
         return -1;
     }
 
+    if (pool->def->source.format == VIR_STORAGE_POOL_DISK_UNKNOWN)
+        pool->def->source.format = VIR_STORAGE_POOL_DISK_DOS;
+    format = virStoragePoolFormatDiskTypeToString(pool->def->source.format);
     if (!virStorageBackendDeviceIsEmpty(path, format, false))
         return -1;
 
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2.13.5