Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH] block/vmdk: Report failures in vmdk_read_cid()

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 28/07/2017 14:54, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 09.07.2017 um 19:06 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben:
>> The function vmdk_read_cid() can fail if the read on the underlying
>> block device fails, or if there's a format error in the VMDK file.
>> However its API doesn't provide a mechanism to report these errors,
>> and in some cases we were returning a CID of 0 and in some cases a
>> CID of 0xffffffff, either of which might potentially be valid values.
>>
>> Change the function to return 0 on success or a negative errno, and
>> return the CID via a uint32_t* argument. Update the callsites to
>> handle and propagate the error appropriately.
>>
>> This fixes in passing a Coverity-spotted issue (CID 1350038) where
>> we weren't checking the return value from sscanf().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> 
> Fam, this is the commit that introduced the qemu-iotests 059 failure for
> vmdk. I think what's happening is that we use an image produced by a
> fuzzer, and with the additional checks introduced in this patch, we now
> fail earlier and don't test the condition any more that we wanted to
> test.
> 
> So do we need a new version of sample_images/afl9.vmdk.bz2 that has a
> valid CID?

This has never been fixed, has it?  I still see the failure.

Paolo