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Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:18:03 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix (at least one cause of) qcow2 corruption.
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Nolan wrote:
> qcow2's get_cluster_offset() scans forward in the l2 table to find other
> clusters that have the same allocation status as the first cluster.
> This is used by (among others) qcow_is_allocated().
>
> Unfortunately, it was not checking to be sure that it didn't fall off
> the end of the l2 table.  This patch adds that check.
>
> The symptom that motivated me to look into this was that
> bdrv_is_allocated() was returning false when there was in fact data
> there.  This is one of many ways this bug could lead to data corruption.
>
> I checked the other place that scans for consecutive unallocated blocks
> (alloc_cluster_offset()) and it appears to be OK:
>     nb_clusters = MIN(nb_clusters, s->l2_size - l2_index);
> appears to prevent the same problem from occurring.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nolan Leake <nolan <at> sigbus.net>
>   
Applied to stable.  Thanks

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori