block: move encryption deprecation warning into qcow code

For a couple of releases we have been warning

  Encrypted images are deprecated
  Support for them will be removed in a future release.
  You can use 'qemu-img convert' to convert your image to an unencrypted one.

This warning was issued by system emulators, qemu-img, qemu-nbd
and qemu-io. Such a broad warning was issued because the original
intention was to rip out all the code for dealing with encryption
inside the QEMU block layer APIs.

The new block encryption framework used for the LUKS driver does
not rely on the unloved block layer API for encryption keys,
instead using the QOM 'secret' object type. It is thus no longer
appropriate to warn about encryption unconditionally.

When the qcow/qcow2 drivers are converted to use the new encryption
framework too, it will be practical to keep AES-CBC support present
for use in qemu-img, qemu-io & qemu-nbd to allow for interoperability
with older QEMU versions and liberation of data from existing encrypted
qcow2 files.

This change moves the warning out of the generic block code and
into the qcow/qcow2 drivers. Further, the warning is set to only
appear when running the system emulators, since qemu-img, qemu-io,
qemu-nbd are expected to support qcow2 encryption long term now that
the maint burden has been eliminated.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/block/block.h b/include/block/block.h
index c236e1d813..b4b4650fd3 100644
--- a/include/block/block.h
+++ b/include/block/block.h
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ void bdrv_io_limits_update_group(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *group);
 
 void bdrv_init(void);
 void bdrv_init_with_whitelist(void);
+bool bdrv_uses_whitelist(void);
 BlockDriver *bdrv_find_protocol(const char *filename,
                                 bool allow_protocol_prefix,
                                 Error **errp);