If you have a qcow2 file /path1/to/file pointed to by symlink
/path2/symlink, and pass qemu /path2/symlink, then qemu treats
a relative backing file in the qcow2 metadata as being relative
to /path2, not /path1/to. Yes, this means that it is possible
to create a qcow2 file where the choice of WHICH directory and
symlink you access its contents from will then determine WHICH
backing file (if any) you actually find; the results can be
rather screwy, but we have to match what qemu does.
Libvirt and qemu default to creating absolute backing file
names, so most users don't hit this. But at least VDSM uses
symlinks and relative backing names alongside the
--reuse-external flags to libvirt snapshot operations, with the
result that libvirt was failing to follow the intended chain of
backing files, and then backing files were not granted the
necessary sVirt permissions to be opened by qemu.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903248 for
more gory details. This fixes a regression introduced in
commit 8250783.
I tested this patch by creating the following chain:
ls /home/eblake/Downloads/Fedora.iso # raw file for base
cd /var/lib/libvirt/images
qemu-img create -f qcow2 \
-obacking_file=/home/eblake/Downloads/Fedora.iso,backing_fmt=raw one
mkdir sub
cd sub
ln -s ../one onelink
qemu-img create -f qcow2 \
-obacking_file=../sub/onelink,backing_fmt=qcow2 two
mv two ..
ln -s ../two twolink
qemu-img create -f qcow2 \
-obacking_file=../sub/twolink,backing_fmt=qcow2 three
mv three ..
ln -s ../three threelink
then pointing my domain at /var/lib/libvirt/images/sub/threelink.
Prior to this patch, I got complaints about missing backing
files; afterwards, I was able to verify that the backing chain
(and hence DAC and SELinux relabels) of the entire chain worked.
* src/util/virstoragefile.h (_virStorageFileMetadata): Add
directory member.
* src/util/virstoragefile.c (absolutePathFromBaseFile): Drop,
replaced by...
(virFindBackingFile): ...better function.
(virStorageFileGetMetadataInternal): Add an argument.
(virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFD, virStorageFileChainLookup)
(virStorageFileGetMetadata): Update callers.
Prior to this patch, we had the callchains:
external users
\-> virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFD
\-> virStorageFileGetMetadataFromBuf
virStorageFileGetMetadataRecurse
\-> virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFD
\-> virStorageFileGetMetadataFromBuf
However, a future patch wants to add an additional parameter to
the bottom of the chain, for use by virStorageFileGetMetadataRecurse,
without affecting existing external callers. Since there is only a
single caller of the internal function, we can repurpose it to fit
our needs, with this patch giving us:
external users
\-> virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFD
\-> virStorageFileGetMetadataInternal
virStorageFileGetMetadataRecurse /
\-> virStorageFileGetMetadataInternal
* src/util/virstoragefile.c (virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFD):
Move most of the guts...
(virStorageFileGetMetadataFromBuf): ...here, and rename...
(virStorageFileGetMetadataInternal): ...to this.
(virStorageFileGetMetadataRecurse): Use internal helper.
virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFD is the only caller of
virStorageFileGetMetadataFromBuf; and it doesn't care about the
difference between a return of 0 (total success) or 1
(metadata was inconsistent, but pointer was populated as best
as possible); only about a return of -1 (could not read metadata
or out of memory). Changing the return type, and normalizing
the variable names used, will make merging the functions easier
in the next commit.
* src/util/virstoragefile.c (virStorageFileGetMetadataFromBuf):
Change return value, and rename some variables.
(virStorageFileGetMetadataFromFD): Rename some variables.
No semantic change; done so the next patch doesn't need a forward
declaration of a static function.
* src/util/virstoragefile.c (virStorageFileProbeFormatFromBuf):
Hoist earlier.
This makes code easier to read, by avoiding lines longer than
80 columns and removing the repetition from the callers.
* src/util/virstoragefile.c (qedGetHeaderUL, qedGetHeaderULL):
Delete in favor of more generic macros.
(qcow2GetBackingStoreFormat, qcowXGetBackingStore)
(qedGetBackingStore, virStorageFileMatchesVersion)
(virStorageFileGetMetadataInternal): Use new macros.
* src/cpu/cpu_x86.c (x86VendorLoad): Likewise.
QEMU is fully capable of handling VDI images and we just refuse to
work with them. As qemu-img knows and supports this, there should be
no problem with this addition.
This is of course, just basic functionality, without searching for any
backing files, etc.
Some files have the magic shifted to some offset other than 0, so we
have to support that. I also cleaned up some lines to be more
readable and added missing magic for iso file format.
