[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/5] block: qobject_is_equal() in bdrv_reopen_prepare()

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

Currently, bdrv_reopen_prepare() assumes that all BDS options are
strings. However, this is not the case if the BDS has been created
through the json: pseudo-protocol or blockdev-add.

Note that the user-invokable reopen command is an HMP command, so you
can only specify strings there. Therefore, specifying a non-string
option with the "same" value as it was when originally created will now
return an error because the values are supposedly similar (and there is
no way for the user to circumvent this but to just not specify the
option again -- however, this is still strictly better than just
crashing).

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
---
 block.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 913bb43..45eb248 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -2947,19 +2947,24 @@ int bdrv_reopen_prepare(BDRVReopenState *reopen_state, BlockReopenQueue *queue,
         const QDictEntry *entry = qdict_first(reopen_state->options);
 
         do {
-            QString *new_obj = qobject_to_qstring(entry->value);
-            const char *new = qstring_get_str(new_obj);
-            /*
-             * Caution: while qdict_get_try_str() is fine, getting
-             * non-string types would require more care.  When
-             * bs->options come from -blockdev or blockdev_add, its
-             * members are typed according to the QAPI schema, but
-             * when they come from -drive, they're all QString.
-             */
-            const char *old = qdict_get_try_str(reopen_state->bs->options,
-                                                entry->key);
-
-            if (!old || strcmp(new, old)) {
+            QObject *new = entry->value;
+            QObject *old = qdict_get(reopen_state->bs->options, entry->key);
+
+            /* TODO: When using -drive to specify blockdev options, all values
+             * will be strings; however, when using -blockdev, blockdev-add or
+             * filenames using the json:{} pseudo-protocol, they will be
+             * correctly typed.
+             * In contrast, reopening options are (currently) always strings
+             * (because you can only specify them through qemu-io; all other
+             * callers do not specify any options).
+             * Therefore, when using anything other than -drive to create a BDS,
+             * this cannot detect non-string options as unchanged, because
+             * qobject_is_equal() always returns false for objects of different
+             * type.  In the future, this should be remedied by correctly typing
+             * all options.  For now, this is not too big of an issue because
+             * the user simply can not specify options which cannot be changed
+             * anyway, so they will stay unchanged. */
+            if (!qobject_is_equal(new, old)) {
                 error_setg(errp, "Cannot change the option '%s'", entry->key);
                 ret = -EINVAL;
                 goto error;
-- 
2.9.4