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Jim Fehlig reported a regression found by libvirt-TCK tests: > ~ # perl /usr/share/libvirt-tck/tests/qemu/100-disk-encryption.t ... > ok 4 - defined persistent domain config > # Starting inactive domain config > libvirt error code: 1, message: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command > 'cont': 'drive-ide0-0-1' > (/var/cache/libvirt-tck/300-disk-encryption/demo.qcow2) is encrypted Commit2279d560converted a boolean into a pointer with the intent of transferring that pointer out of a temporary object into the caller's data structure. The temporary structure meant that meta->encryption was always NULL on entry, so we could get away with blindly allocating the pointer when the header said so. But later, commit8823272dtweaked things to do backing chain detection in-place, rather than via a temporary object; this has the net result that meta->encryption can be non-NULL on entry. Not only did this turn the latent behavior into a memory leak, it is also a behavior regression: blindly allocating a new pointer wipes out what secrets we already knew about the chain, making it impossible to restart the domain. Of course, no one in their right mind should be relying on qcow2 encryption - it is fundamentally flawed. And sadly, the TCK tests don't get run often enough, and this shows that our virstoragetest does not exercise encrypted images at all. Otherwise, we could have avoided a release containing this regression. * src/util/virstoragefile.c (virStorageFileGetMetadataInternal): Don't nuke an already-existing encryption. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>