Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH 3/3] blockdev: Add dynamic module loading for block drivers

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:04:43AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 05:35:54PM -0400, Colin Lord wrote:
> 
> >  
> > @@ -447,8 +466,15 @@ int get_tmp_filename(char *filename, int size)
> >  static BlockDriver *find_hdev_driver(const char *filename)
> >  {
> >      int score_max = 0, score;
> > +    size_t i;
> >      BlockDriver *drv = NULL, *d;
> >  
> > +    for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(block_driver_modules); ++i) {
> > +        if (block_driver_modules[i].has_probe_device) {
> > +            block_module_load_one(block_driver_modules[i].library_name);
> > +        }
> > +    }
> 
> This patch series needs to solve probing so that we don't end up loading
> all block drivers.  Fam's suggestion for a built-in probe.c sounds good
> to me.

Do we really care if probing loads all drivers ? Last time we discussed
this I thought we decided that because probing almost always leads to
security vulnerabilities, no one should use it by default and so we
don't really need to worry about optimizing it.

Regards,
Daniel
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