The recently-added NBD context qemu:allocation-depth is able to
distinguish between locally-present data (even when that data is
sparse) [shown as depth 1 over NBD], and data that could not be found
anywhere in the backing chain [shown as depth 0]; and the libnbd
project was recently patched to give the human-readable name "absent"
to an allocation-depth of 0. But qemu-img map --output=json predates
that addition, and has the unfortunate behavior that all portions of
the backing chain that resolve without finding a hit in any backing
layer report the same depth as the final backing layer. This makes it
harder to reconstruct a qcow2 backing chain using just 'qemu-img map'
output, especially when using "backing":null to artificially limit a
backing chain, because it is impossible to distinguish between a
QCOW2_CLUSTER_UNALLOCATED (which defers to a [missing] backing file)
and a QCOW2_CLUSTER_ZERO_PLAIN cluster (which would override any
backing file), since both types of clusters otherwise show as
"data":false,"zero":true" (but note that we can distinguish a
QCOW2_CLUSTER_ZERO_ALLOCATED, which would also have an "offset":
listing).
The task of reconstructing a qcow2 chain was made harder in commit
0da9856851 (nbd: server: Report holes for raw images), because prior
to that point, it was possible to abuse NBD's block status command to
see which portions of a qcow2 file resulted in BDRV_BLOCK_ALLOCATED
(showing up as NBD_STATE_ZERO in isolation) vs. missing from the chain
(showing up as NBD_STATE_ZERO|NBD_STATE_HOLE); but now qemu reports
more accurate sparseness information over NBD.
An obvious solution is to make 'qemu-img map --output=json' add an
additional "present":false designation to any cluster lacking an
allocation anywhere in the chain, without any change to the "depth"
parameter to avoid breaking existing clients. The iotests have
several examples where this distinction demonstrates the additional
accuracy.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210701190655.2131223-3-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
[eblake: fix more iotest fallout]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
There are many existing qcow2 images that specify a backing file but
no format. This has been the source of CVEs in the past, but has
become more prominent of a problem now that libvirt has switched to
-blockdev. With older -drive, at least the probing was always done by
qemu (so the only risk of a changed format between successive boots of
a guest was if qemu was upgraded and probed differently). But with
newer -blockdev, libvirt must specify a format; if libvirt guesses raw
where the image was formatted, this results in data corruption visible
to the guest; conversely, if libvirt guesses qcow2 where qemu was
using raw, this can result in potential security holes, so modern
libvirt instead refuses to use images without explicit backing format.
The change in libvirt to reject images without explicit backing format
has pointed out that a number of tools have been far too reliant on
probing in the past. It's time to set a better example in our own
iotests of properly setting this parameter.
iotest calls to create, rebase, and convert are all impacted to some
degree. It's a bit annoying that we are inconsistent on command line
- while all of those accept -o backing_file=...,backing_fmt=..., the
shortcuts are different: create and rebase have -b and -F, while
convert has -B but no -F. (amend has no shortcuts, but the previous
patch just deprecated the use of amend to change backing chains).
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200706203954.341758-9-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
When we have a BDS with unallocated clusters, but asking the status
of its underlying bs->file or backing layer encounters an end-of-file
condition, we know that the rest of the unallocated area will read as
zeroes. However, pre-patch, this required two separate calls to
bdrv_get_block_status(), as the first call stops at the point where
the underlying file ends. Thanks to BDRV_BLOCK_EOF, we can now widen
the results of the primary status if the secondary status already
includes BDRV_BLOCK_ZERO.
In turn, this fixes a TODO mentioned in iotest 154, where we can now
see that all sectors in a partial cluster at the end of a file read
as zero when coupling the shorter backing file's status along with our
knowledge that the remaining sectors came from an unallocated cluster.
Also, note that the loop in bdrv_co_get_block_status_above() had an
inefficent exit: in cases where the active layer sets BDRV_BLOCK_ZERO
but does NOT set BDRV_BLOCK_ALLOCATED (namely, where we know we read
zeroes merely because our unallocated clusters lie beyond the backing
file's shorter length), we still ended up probing the backing layer
even though we already had a good answer.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170505021500.19315-3-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
We've already improved discards to operate efficiently on the tail
of an unaligned qcow2 image; it's time to make a similar improvement
to write zeroes. The special case is only valid at the tail
cluster of a file, where we must recognize that any sectors beyond
the image end would implicitly read as zero, and therefore should
not penalize our logic for widening a partial cluster into writing
the whole cluster as zero.
However, note that for now, the special case of end-of-file is only
recognized if there is no backing file, or if the backing file has
the same length; that's because when the backing file is shorter
than the active layer, we don't have code in place to recognize
that reads of a sector unallocated at the top and beyond the backing
end-of-file are implicitly zero. It's not much of a real loss,
because most people don't use images that aren't cluster-aligned,
or where the active layer is a different size than the backing
layer (especially where the difference falls within a single cluster).
Update test 154 to cover the new scenarios, using two images of
intentionally differing length.
While at it, fix the test to gracefully skip when run as
./check -qcow2 -o compat=0.10 154
since the older format lacks zero clusters already required earlier
in the test.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170507000552.20847-11-eblake@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Although _filter_qemu_img_map documents that it scrubs offsets, it
was only doing so for human mode. Of the existing tests using the
filter (97, 122, 150, 154, 176), two of them are affected, but it
does not hurt the validity of the tests to not require particular
mappings (another test, 66, uses offsets but intentionally does not
pass through _filter_qemu_img_map, because it checks that offsets
are unchanged before and after an operation).
Another justification for this patch is that it will allow a future
patch to utilize 'qemu-img map --output=json' to check the status of
preallocated zero clusters without regards to the mapping (since
the qcow2 mapping can be very sensitive to the chosen cluster size,
when preallocation is not in use).
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170507000552.20847-9-eblake@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
is_zero_cluster() and is_zero_cluster_top_locked() are used only
by qcow2_co_write_zeroes(). The former is too broad (we don't
care if the sectors we are about to overwrite are non-zero, only
that all other sectors in the cluster are zero), so it needs to
be called up to twice but with smaller limits - rename it along
with adding the neeeded parameter. The latter can be inlined for
more compact code.
The testsuite change shows that we now have a sparser top file
when an unaligned write_zeroes overwrites the only portion of
the backing file with data.
Based on a patch proposal by Denis V. Lunev.
CC: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Add another test to 154, showing that we currently allocate a
data cluster in the top layer if any sector of the backing file
was allocated. The next patch will optimize this case.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We should split requests even if they are less than write_zeroes_alignment.
For example we can have the following request:
offset 62k
size 4k
write_zeroes_alignment 64k
The original code sent 1 request covering 2 qcow2 clusters, and resulted
in both clusters being allocated. But by splitting the request, we can
cater to the case where one of the two clusters can be zeroed as a
whole, for only 1 cluster allocated after the operation.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1463476543-3087-2-git-send-email-den@openvz.org>
[eblake: Avoid exceeding nb_sectors, hoist alignment checks out of
loop, and update testsuite to show that patch works]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This covers some more write_zeroes cases which are relevant for the
recent qcow2 optimisations that check the allocation status of the
backing file for partial cluster write_zeroes requests.
This needs to be separate from 034 because we can only support qcow2 in
this test case for multiple reasons: We check the allocation status
after write_zeroes with 'qemu-img map' and the optimised behaviour that
produces zero clusters is only implemented in qcow2; second, the map
command returns offsets that are qcow2 specific; and finally, we also
use 512 byte clusters which aren't supported for formats like qed.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Eric Blake
Denis V. Lunev
Kevin Wolf