From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] file-posix: specify expected filetypes
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:25:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180321202501.GJ3898@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180321200114.10981-1-jsnow@redhat.com>
Am 21.03.2018 um 21:01 hat John Snow geschrieben:
> Adjust each caller of raw_open_common to specify if they are expecting
> host and character devices or not. Tighten expectations of file types upon
> open in the common code and refuse types that are not expected.
>
> This has two effects:
>
> (1) Character and block devices are now considered deprecated for the
> 'file' driver, which expects only S_IFREG, and
> (2) no file-posix driver (file, host_cdrom, or host_device) can open
> directories now.
>
> I don't think there's a legitimate reason to open directories as if
> they were files. This prevents QEMU from opening and attempting to probe
> a directory inode, which can break in exciting ways. One of those ways
> is lseek on ext4/xfs, which will return 0x7fffffffffffffff as the file
> size instead of EISDIR. This can coax QEMU into responding with a
> confusing "file too big" instead of "Hey, that's not a file".
>
> See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1739304/
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> v5: rebase for 2.12.0-rc0
>
> block/file-posix.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> qemu-doc.texi | 6 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/file-posix.c b/block/file-posix.c
> index d7fb772c14..31d9afe026 100644
> --- a/block/file-posix.c
> +++ b/block/file-posix.c
> @@ -420,7 +420,8 @@ static QemuOptsList raw_runtime_opts = {
> };
>
> static int raw_open_common(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options,
> - int bdrv_flags, int open_flags, Error **errp)
> + int bdrv_flags, int open_flags,
> + bool device, Error **errp)
> {
> BDRVRawState *s = bs->opaque;
> QemuOpts *opts;
> @@ -558,10 +559,30 @@ static int raw_open_common(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options,
> error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "Could not stat file");
> goto fail;
> }
> - if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) {
> - s->discard_zeroes = true;
> - s->has_fallocate = true;
> +
> + if (!device) {
> + if (S_ISBLK(st.st_mode)) {
> + warn_report("Opening a block device as file using 'file' "
> + "driver is deprecated");
> + } else if (S_ISCHR(st.st_mode)) {
> + warn_report("Opening a character device as file using the 'file' "
> + "driver is deprecated");
> + } else if (!S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) {
> + error_setg(errp, "A regular file was expected by the 'file' driver, "
> + "but something else was given");
> + goto fail;
ret needs to be set here, otherwise we return success. In my test, I
still got the wrong message: "Could not refresh total sector count:
Invalid argument"
> + } else {
> + s->discard_zeroes = true;
> + s->has_fallocate = true;
> + }
> + } else {
> + if (!(S_ISCHR(st.st_mode) || S_ISBLK(st.st_mode))) {
> + error_setg(errp, "host_device/host_cdrom driver expects either "
> + "a character or block device");
> + goto fail;
Same here.
> + }
> }
Do we want a qemu-iotests case for this?
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-21 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-21 20:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5] file-posix: specify expected filetypes John Snow
2018-03-21 20:25 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2018-03-21 20:26 ` John Snow
2018-03-21 20:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12 " Eric Blake
2018-03-21 20:36 ` Kevin Wolf
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