The offset field of an uncompressed cluster's L2 entry must be aligned
to the cluster size, otherwise it is invalid. If the cluster has no
data then it means that the offset points to a preallocation, so we
can clear the offset field without affecting the guest-visible data.
This is what 'qemu-img check' does when run in repair mode.
On traditional qcow2 images this can only happen when QCOW_OFLAG_ZERO
is set, and repairing such entries turns the clusters from ZERO_ALLOC
into ZERO_PLAIN.
Extended L2 entries have no ZERO_ALLOC clusters and no QCOW_OFLAG_ZERO
but the idea is the same: if none of the subclusters are allocated
then we can clear the offset field and leave the bitmap untouched.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <9f4ed1d0a34b0a545b032c31ecd8c14734065342.1594396418.git.berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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