iotests: Test abnormally large size in compressed cluster descriptor

L2 entries for compressed clusters have a field that indicates the
number of sectors used to store the data in the image.

That's however not the size of the compressed data itself, just the
number of sectors where that data is located. The actual data size is
usually not a multiple of the sector size, and therefore cannot be
represented with this field.

The way it works is that QEMU reads all the specified sectors and
starts decompressing the data until there's enough to recover the
original uncompressed cluster. If there are any bytes left that
haven't been decompressed they are simply ignored.

One consequence of this is that even if the size field is larger than
it needs to be QEMU can handle it just fine: it will read more data
from disk but it will ignore the extra bytes.

This test creates an image with two compressed clusters that use 5
sectors (2.5 KB) each, increases the size field to the maximum (8192
sectors, or 4 MB) and verifies that the data can be read without
problems.

This test is important because while the decompressed data takes
exactly one cluster, the maximum value allowed in the compressed size
field is twice the cluster size. So although QEMU won't produce images
with such large values we need to make sure that it can handle them.

Another effect of increasing the size field is that it can make
it include data from the following host cluster(s). In this case
'qemu-img check' will detect that the refcounts are not correct, and
we'll need to rebuild them.

Additionally, this patch also tests that decreasing the size corrupts
the image since the original data can no longer be recovered. In this
case QEMU returns an error when trying to read the compressed data,
but 'qemu-img check' doesn't see anything wrong if the refcounts are
consistent.

One possible task for the future is to make 'qemu-img check' verify
the sizes of the compressed clusters, by trying to decompress the data
and checking that the size stored in the L2 entry is correct.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-id: 20180329120745.11154-1-berto@igalia.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

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