Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 43/46] block: Assertions for write permissions

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 04:03:28PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/06/2017 03:59 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:36:42PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> >> This adds assertions that ensure that the necessary write permissions
> >> have been granted before someone attempts to write to a node.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> >> Acked-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >>  block/io.c | 3 +++
> >>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/block/io.c b/block/io.c
> >> index 2592ca1..4c79745 100644
> >> --- a/block/io.c
> >> +++ b/block/io.c
> >> @@ -945,6 +945,8 @@ static int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_do_copy_on_readv(BdrvChild *child,
> >>      size_t skip_bytes;
> >>      int ret;
> >>  
> >> +    assert(child->perm & (BLK_PERM_WRITE_UNCHANGED | BLK_PERM_WRITE));
> > 
> > 
> > This assertion is thrown in the libguestfs test suite.  I filed a bug
> > about it against the Fedora package:
> > 
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2017-02/msg01305.html
> 
> Wrong URL?

Ooops, the right link is:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1439922

There is also a minimal reproducer in comment 2.

Rich.

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