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| author | Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> | 2017-11-23 03:08:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> | 2018-01-23 12:34:42 +0100 |
| commit | c9ceb3ec8a7e6dc4f74183ca7493895445b57845 (patch) | |
| tree | e8cc603dfe0c99b3a8077847d7639c1870b19320 /block/qcow2-bitmap.c | |
| parent | 3c363575dc5fe325a8b16b1a18e1fa48120df6b6 (diff) | |
| download | qemu-c9ceb3ec8a7e6dc4f74183ca7493895445b57845.tar.gz | |
qcow2: No persistent dirty bitmaps for compat=0.10
Persistent dirty bitmaps require a properly functioning
autoclear_features field, or we cannot track when an unsupporting
program might overwrite them. Therefore, we cannot support them for
compat=0.10 images.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20171123020832.8165-3-mreitz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/qcow2-bitmap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/qcow2-bitmap.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/qcow2-bitmap.c b/block/qcow2-bitmap.c index f45e46cfbd..efa10c6663 100644 --- a/block/qcow2-bitmap.c +++ b/block/qcow2-bitmap.c @@ -1449,6 +1449,16 @@ bool qcow2_can_store_new_dirty_bitmap(BlockDriverState *bs, bool found; Qcow2BitmapList *bm_list; + if (s->qcow_version < 3) { + /* Without autoclear_features, we would always have to assume + * that a program without persistent dirty bitmap support has + * accessed this qcow2 file when opening it, and would thus + * have to drop all dirty bitmaps (defeating their purpose). + */ + error_setg(errp, "Cannot store dirty bitmaps in qcow2 v2 files"); + goto fail; + } + if (check_constraints_on_bitmap(bs, name, granularity, errp) != 0) { goto fail; } |