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Re: [PATCH v3] qcow2: Avoid integer wraparound in qcow2_co_truncate()


From: Alberto Garcia
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] qcow2: Avoid integer wraparound in qcow2_co_truncate()
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 19:07:27 +0200
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On Mon 04 May 2020 06:01:19 PM CEST, Eric Blake wrote:
>> +_supported_fmt qcow2
>> +_supported_proto file
>
> Do we have to limit it to qcow2 and file?  Yes, it's testing a bugfix
> for qcow2, but are there other formats that it doesn't hurt to have
> the extra testing?

It doesn't work with any other format at the moment (meaning: reading
the tail of the image after growing it returns the data from the backing
file).

Also, it seems that qemu-img's -F does not work with other formats
either.

> Also, I don't see anything preventing this from working with non-file
> protocol.

Right, that can be updated I guess (whoever commits this, feel free to
do it).

Berto



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