Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block/raw-posix: Abort on pread beyond end of non-growable file

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 01/22/2010 07:26 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> This shouldn't happen under any normal circumstances. However, it looks like
> it's possible to achieve this with corrupted images. Without this patch
> raw_pread is hanging in an endless loop in such cases.
>
> The patch is not affecting growable files, for which such reads happen in
> normal use cases. raw_pread_aligned already handles these cases and won't
> return zero in the first place.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf<kwolf@redhat.com>
>    

Applied.  Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
> ---
>   block/raw-posix.c |    6 +++++-
>   1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/raw-posix.c b/block/raw-posix.c
> index 4d79881..6ef1cff 100644
> --- a/block/raw-posix.c
> +++ b/block/raw-posix.c
> @@ -403,8 +403,12 @@ static int raw_pread(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t offset,
>                       size = ALIGNED_BUFFER_SIZE;
>
>                   ret = raw_pread_aligned(bs, offset, s->aligned_buf, size);
> -                if (ret<  0)
> +                if (ret<  0) {
>                       return ret;
> +                } else if (ret == 0) {
> +                    fprintf(stderr, "raw_pread: read beyond end of file\n");
> +                    abort();
> +                }
>
>                   size = ret;
>                   if (size>  count)
>