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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v9 07/20] block: deprecate "encryption=on" in fa


From: Daniel P. Berrange
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v9 07/20] block: deprecate "encryption=on" in favor of "encrypt.format=aes"
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:02:06 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23)

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 01:44:50PM +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Mon 19 Jun 2017 07:34:42 PM CEST, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Historically the qcow & qcow2 image formats supported a property
> > "encryption=on" to enable their built-in AES encryption. We'll
> > soon be supporting LUKS for qcow2, so need a more general purpose
> > way to enable encryption, with a choice of formats.
> >
> > This introduces an "encrypt.format" option, which will later be
> > joined by a number of other "encrypt.XXX" options. The use of
> > a "encrypt." prefix instead of "encrypt-" is done to facilitate
> > mapping to a nested QAPI schema at later date.
> >
> > e.g. the preferred syntax is now
> >
> >   qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o encrypt.format=aes demo.qcow2
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> > +    if (encryptfmt) {
> > +        buf = qemu_opt_get_del(opts, BLOCK_OPT_ENCRYPT);
> > +        if (buf != NULL) {
> > +            g_free(buf);
> 
> If you use qemu_opt_get() instead then you don't need "buf" at all, do
> you?

IIRC, we needed to delete the option from opts, otherwise something
will later complain that there are opts that are not consumed.

> 
> > +    if (encryptfmt) {
> > +        buf = qemu_opt_get_del(opts, BLOCK_OPT_ENCRYPT);
> > +        if (buf != NULL) {
> > +            g_free(buf);
> 
> Same here.
> 
> Everything else looks fine.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>

Regards,
Daniel
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