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-rw-r--r--block.c37
-rw-r--r--docs/system/deprecated.rst20
-rw-r--r--docs/system/removed-features.rst19
-rw-r--r--qemu-img.c6
-rwxr-xr-xtests/qemu-iotests/0404
-rwxr-xr-xtests/qemu-iotests/0416
-rwxr-xr-xtests/qemu-iotests/11418
-rw-r--r--tests/qemu-iotests/114.out11
-rwxr-xr-xtests/qemu-iotests/3014
-rw-r--r--tests/qemu-iotests/301.out16
10 files changed, 56 insertions, 85 deletions
diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index acd35cb0cb..ce96585575 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -5074,7 +5074,7 @@ int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_check(BlockDriverState *bs,
* -ENOTSUP - format driver doesn't support changing the backing file
*/
int bdrv_change_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *backing_file,
- const char *backing_fmt, bool warn)
+ const char *backing_fmt, bool require)
{
BlockDriver *drv = bs->drv;
int ret;
@@ -5088,10 +5088,8 @@ int bdrv_change_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *backing_file,
return -EINVAL;
}
- if (warn && backing_file && !backing_fmt) {
- warn_report("Deprecated use of backing file without explicit "
- "backing format, use of this image requires "
- "potentially unsafe format probing");
+ if (require && backing_file && !backing_fmt) {
+ return -EINVAL;
}
if (drv->bdrv_change_backing_file != NULL) {
@@ -6601,24 +6599,11 @@ void bdrv_img_create(const char *filename, const char *fmt,
goto out;
} else {
if (!backing_fmt) {
- warn_report("Deprecated use of backing file without explicit "
- "backing format (detected format of %s)",
- bs->drv->format_name);
- if (bs->drv != &bdrv_raw) {
- /*
- * A probe of raw deserves the most attention:
- * leaving the backing format out of the image
- * will ensure bs->probed is set (ensuring we
- * don't accidentally commit into the backing
- * file), and allow more spots to warn the users
- * to fix their toolchain when opening this image
- * later. For other images, we can safely record
- * the format that we probed.
- */
- backing_fmt = bs->drv->format_name;
- qemu_opt_set(opts, BLOCK_OPT_BACKING_FMT, backing_fmt,
- NULL);
- }
+ error_setg(&local_err,
+ "Backing file specified without backing format");
+ error_append_hint(&local_err, "Detected format of %s.",
+ bs->drv->format_name);
+ goto out;
}
if (size == -1) {
/* Opened BS, have no size */
@@ -6635,9 +6620,9 @@ void bdrv_img_create(const char *filename, const char *fmt,
}
/* (backing_file && !(flags & BDRV_O_NO_BACKING)) */
} else if (backing_file && !backing_fmt) {
- warn_report("Deprecated use of unopened backing file without "
- "explicit backing format, use of this image requires "
- "potentially unsafe format probing");
+ error_setg(&local_err,
+ "Backing file specified without backing format");
+ goto out;
}
if (size == -1) {
diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
index 9626a1fb57..25d6c4c9a0 100644
--- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
@@ -282,26 +282,6 @@ this CPU is also deprecated.
Related binaries
----------------
-qemu-img backing file without format (since 5.1)
-''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
-
-The use of ``qemu-img create``, ``qemu-img rebase``, or ``qemu-img
-convert`` to create or modify an image that depends on a backing file
-now recommends that an explicit backing format be provided. This is
-for safety: if QEMU probes a different format than what you thought,
-the data presented to the guest will be corrupt; similarly, presenting
-a raw image to a guest allows a potential security exploit if a future
-probe sees a non-raw image based on guest writes.
-
-To avoid the warning message, or even future refusal to create an
-unsafe image, you must pass ``-o backing_fmt=`` (or the shorthand
-``-F`` during create) to specify the intended backing format. You may
-use ``qemu-img rebase -u`` to retroactively add a backing format to an
-existing image. However, be aware that there are already potential
-security risks to blindly using ``qemu-img info`` to probe the format
-of an untrusted backing image, when deciding what format to add into
-an existing image.
-
Backwards compatibility
-----------------------
diff --git a/docs/system/removed-features.rst b/docs/system/removed-features.rst
index b64ea55194..28bb035043 100644
--- a/docs/system/removed-features.rst
+++ b/docs/system/removed-features.rst
@@ -503,6 +503,25 @@ backing chain should be performed with ``qemu-img rebase -u`` either
before or after the remaining changes being performed by amend, as
appropriate.
+qemu-img backing file without format (removed in 6.1)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The use of ``qemu-img create``, ``qemu-img rebase``, or ``qemu-img
+convert`` to create or modify an image that depends on a backing file
+now requires that an explicit backing format be provided. This is
+for safety: if QEMU probes a different format than what you thought,
+the data presented to the guest will be corrupt; similarly, presenting
+a raw image to a guest allows a potential security exploit if a future
+probe sees a non-raw image based on guest writes.
+
+To avoid creating unsafe backing chains, you must pass ``-o
+backing_fmt=`` (or the shorthand ``-F`` during create) to specify the
+intended backing format. You may use ``qemu-img rebase -u`` to
+retroactively add a backing format to an existing image. However, be
+aware that there are already potential security risks to blindly using
+``qemu-img info`` to probe the format of an untrusted backing image,
+when deciding what format to add into an existing image.
+
Block devices
-------------
diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c
index 7956a89965..ec0e2fabe5 100644
--- a/qemu-img.c
+++ b/qemu-img.c
@@ -2508,8 +2508,10 @@ static int img_convert(int argc, char **argv)
if (out_baseimg_param) {
if (!qemu_opt_get(opts, BLOCK_OPT_BACKING_FMT)) {
- warn_report("Deprecated use of backing file without explicit "
- "backing format");
+ error_report("Use of backing file requires explicit "
+ "backing format");
+ ret = -1;
+ goto out;
}
}
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/040 b/tests/qemu-iotests/040
index ba7cb34ce8..f3677de9df 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/040
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/040
@@ -920,8 +920,8 @@ class TestCommitWithOverriddenBacking(iotests.QMPTestCase):
def setUp(self):
qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, self.img_base_a, '1M')
qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, self.img_base_b, '1M')
- qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', self.img_base_a, \
- self.img_top)
+ qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', self.img_base_a,
+ '-F', iotests.imgfmt, self.img_top)
self.vm = iotests.VM()
self.vm.launch()
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/041 b/tests/qemu-iotests/041
index 5cc02b24fc..db9f5dc540 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/041
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/041
@@ -1295,8 +1295,10 @@ class TestReplaces(iotests.QMPTestCase):
class TestFilters(iotests.QMPTestCase):
def setUp(self):
qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, backing_img, '1M')
- qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', backing_img, test_img)
- qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', backing_img, target_img)
+ qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', backing_img,
+ '-F', iotests.imgfmt, test_img)
+ qemu_img('create', '-f', iotests.imgfmt, '-b', backing_img,
+ '-F', iotests.imgfmt, target_img)
qemu_io('-c', 'write -P 1 0 512k', backing_img)
qemu_io('-c', 'write -P 2 512k 512k', test_img)
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/114 b/tests/qemu-iotests/114
index 43cb0bc6c3..de6fd327ee 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/114
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/114
@@ -44,16 +44,16 @@ _supported_os Linux
# qcow2.py does not work too well with external data files
_unsupported_imgopts data_file
-# Intentionally specify backing file without backing format; demonstrate
-# the difference in warning messages when backing file could be probed.
-# Note that only a non-raw probe result will affect the resulting image.
+# Older qemu-img could set up backing file without backing format; modern
+# qemu can't but we can use qcow2.py to simulate older files.
truncate -s $((64 * 1024 * 1024)) "$TEST_IMG.orig"
-_make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG.orig" 64M
+_make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG.orig" -F raw 64M
+$PYTHON qcow2.py "$TEST_IMG" del-header-ext 0xE2792ACA
TEST_IMG="$TEST_IMG.base" _make_test_img 64M
$QEMU_IMG convert -O qcow2 -B "$TEST_IMG.orig" "$TEST_IMG.orig" "$TEST_IMG"
-_make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG.base" 64M
-_make_test_img -u -b "$TEST_IMG.base" 64M
+_make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG.base" -F $IMGFMT 64M
+_make_test_img -u -b "$TEST_IMG.base" -F $IMGFMT 64M
# Set an invalid backing file format
$PYTHON qcow2.py "$TEST_IMG" add-header-ext 0xE2792ACA "foo"
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ _img_info
$QEMU_IO -c "open $TEST_IMG" -c "read 0 4k" 2>&1 | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_testdir
$QEMU_IO -c "open -o backing.driver=$IMGFMT $TEST_IMG" -c "read 0 4k" | _filter_qemu_io
-# Rebase the image, to show that omitting backing format triggers a warning,
-# but probing now lets us use the backing file.
-$QEMU_IMG rebase -u -b "$TEST_IMG.base" "$TEST_IMG"
+# Rebase the image, to show that backing format is required.
+($QEMU_IMG rebase -u -b "$TEST_IMG.base" "$TEST_IMG" 2>&1 && echo "unexpected pass") | _filter_testdir
+$QEMU_IMG rebase -u -b "$TEST_IMG.base" -F $IMGFMT "$TEST_IMG"
$QEMU_IO -c "open $TEST_IMG" -c "read 0 4k" 2>&1 | _filter_qemu_io | _filter_testdir
# success, all done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/114.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/114.out
index 0a37d20c82..6d638da266 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/114.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/114.out
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
QA output created by 114
-qemu-img: warning: Deprecated use of backing file without explicit backing format (detected format of raw)
-Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.orig
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.orig backing_fmt=raw
Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
-qemu-img: warning: Deprecated use of backing file without explicit backing format
-qemu-img: warning: Deprecated use of backing file without explicit backing format (detected format of IMGFMT)
+qemu-img: Use of backing file requires explicit backing format
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base backing_fmt=IMGFMT
Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base backing_fmt=IMGFMT
-qemu-img: warning: Deprecated use of unopened backing file without explicit backing format, use of this image requires potentially unsafe format probing
-Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base
image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT
file format: IMGFMT
virtual size: 64 MiB (67108864 bytes)
@@ -17,7 +14,7 @@ qemu-io: can't open device TEST_DIR/t.qcow2: Could not open backing file: Unknow
no file open, try 'help open'
read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 0
4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
-qemu-img: warning: Deprecated use of backing file without explicit backing format, use of this image requires potentially unsafe format probing
+qemu-img: Could not change the backing file to 'TEST_DIR/t.qcow2.base': Invalid argument
read 4096/4096 bytes at offset 0
4 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/301 b/tests/qemu-iotests/301
index 9f943cadbe..220de1043f 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/301
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/301
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
#
# Test qcow backing file warnings
#
-# Copyright (C) 2020 Red Hat, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2020-2021 Red Hat, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ echo "== qcow backed by qcow =="
TEST_IMG="$TEST_IMG.base" _make_test_img $size
_make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG.base" $size
-_img_info
_make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG.base" -F $IMGFMT $size
_img_info
@@ -71,7 +70,6 @@ echo "== qcow backed by raw =="
rm "$TEST_IMG.base"
truncate --size=$size "$TEST_IMG.base"
_make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG.base" $size
-_img_info
_make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG.base" -F raw $size
_img_info
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/301.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/301.out
index 9004dad639..e280658191 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/301.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/301.out
@@ -2,13 +2,7 @@ QA output created by 301
== qcow backed by qcow ==
Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base', fmt=IMGFMT size=33554432
-qemu-img: warning: Deprecated use of backing file without explicit backing format (detected format of IMGFMT)
-Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=33554432 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base backing_fmt=IMGFMT
-image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT
-file format: IMGFMT
-virtual size: 32 MiB (33554432 bytes)
-cluster_size: 512
-backing file: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base
+qemu-img: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: Backing file specified without backing format
Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=33554432 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base backing_fmt=IMGFMT
image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT
file format: IMGFMT
@@ -36,13 +30,7 @@ cluster_size: 512
backing file: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base
== qcow backed by raw ==
-qemu-img: warning: Deprecated use of backing file without explicit backing format (detected format of raw)
-Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=33554432 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base
-image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT
-file format: IMGFMT
-virtual size: 32 MiB (33554432 bytes)
-cluster_size: 512
-backing file: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base
+qemu-img: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: Backing file specified without backing format
Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=33554432 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base backing_fmt=raw
image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT
file format: IMGFMT