[PATCH 2/2] qemu-img: Require -F with -b backing image

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue May 4 13:21:49 UTC 2021


On 5/3/21 4:45 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 5/3/21 4:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Back in commit d9f059aa6c (qemu-img: Deprecate use of -b without -F),
>> we deprecated the ability to create a file with a backing image that
>> requires qemu to perform format probing.  Qemu can still probe older
>> files for backwards compatibility, but it is time to finish off the
>> ability to create such images, due to the potential security risk they
>> present.  Update a couple of iotests affected by the change.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  docs/system/deprecated.rst       | 20 -----------------
>>  docs/system/removed-features.rst | 19 ++++++++++++++++
>>  block.c                          | 37 ++++++++++----------------------
>>  qemu-img.c                       |  6 ++++--
>>  tests/qemu-iotests/114           | 18 ++++++++--------
>>  tests/qemu-iotests/114.out       | 11 ++++------
>>  tests/qemu-iotests/301           |  4 +---
>>  tests/qemu-iotests/301.out       | 16 ++------------
>>  8 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
> 
> I'll need a followup to fix iotest failures in 40 and 41 (apparently
> they weren't passing backing formats, but I did not catch them in my
> original cleanup of iotests back in commit b66ff2c298)

Squash in:

diff --git i/tests/qemu-iotests/040 w/tests/qemu-iotests/040
index ba7cb34ce8cf..f3677de9dfde 100755
--- i/tests/qemu-iotests/040
+++ w/tests/qemu-iotests/040
@@ -920,8 +920,8 @@ class
TestCommitWithOverriddenBacking(iotests.QMPTestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, self.img_base_a, '1M')
         qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, self.img_base_b, '1M')
-        qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', self.img_base_a, \
-                 self.img_top)
+        qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', self.img_base_a,
+                 '-F', iotests.imgfmt, self.img_top)

         self.vm = iotests.VM()
         self.vm.launch()
diff --git i/tests/qemu-iotests/041 w/tests/qemu-iotests/041
index 5cc02b24fc7a..db9f5dc540e8 100755
--- i/tests/qemu-iotests/041
+++ w/tests/qemu-iotests/041
@@ -1295,8 +1295,10 @@ class TestReplaces(iotests.QMPTestCase):
 class TestFilters(iotests.QMPTestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, backing_img, '1M')
-        qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', backing_img,
test_img)
-        qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', backing_img,
target_img)
+        qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', backing_img,
+                 '-F', iotests.imgfmt, test_img)
+        qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', backing_img,
+                 '-F', iotests.imgfmt, target_img)

         qemu_io('-c', 'write -P 1 0 512k', backing_img)
         qemu_io('-c', 'write -P 2 512k 512k', test_img)

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org




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