[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1422307] [NEW] qemu-nbd corrupts files

[Pierre Schweitzer]

Public bug reported:

Dear all,

On Trusty, in certain situations, try to copy files over a qemu-nbd
mounted file system leads to write errors (and thus, file corruption).

Here is the last example I tried:
-> virtual disk is a VDI disk
-> It has only one partition, in FAT

Here is my mount process:
# modprobe nbd max_part=63
# qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 "virtual_disk.vdi"
# partprobe /dev/nbd0
# mount /dev/nbd0p1 /tmp/mnt/

Partition is properly mounted at that point:
/dev/nbd0p1 on /tmp/mnt type vfat (rw)

Now, when I copy a file (rather big, ~28MB):
# cp file_to_copy /tmp/mnt/ ; sync
# md5sum /tmp/mnt/file_to_copy
2efc9f32e4267782b11d63d2f128a363  /tmp/mnt/file_to_copy
# umount /tmp/mnt 
# mount /dev/nbd0p1 /tmp/mnt/
# md5sum /tmp/mnt/file_to_copy
42b0a3bf73f704d03ce301716d7654de  /tmp/mnt/file_to_copy

The first hash was obviously the right one.

On a previous attempt I did, I spotted thanks to vbindiff that parts of the 
file were just filed with 0s instead of actual data.
It will randomly work after several attempts to write.

Version information:
# qemu-nbd --version
qemu-nbd version 0.0.1
Written by Anthony Liguori.

Cheers,

** Affects: qemu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  qemu-nbd corrupts files

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Dear all,

  On Trusty, in certain situations, try to copy files over a qemu-nbd
  mounted file system leads to write errors (and thus, file corruption).

  Here is the last example I tried:
  -> virtual disk is a VDI disk
  -> It has only one partition, in FAT

  Here is my mount process:
  # modprobe nbd max_part=63
  # qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 "virtual_disk.vdi"
  # partprobe /dev/nbd0
  # mount /dev/nbd0p1 /tmp/mnt/

  Partition is properly mounted at that point:
  /dev/nbd0p1 on /tmp/mnt type vfat (rw)

  Now, when I copy a file (rather big, ~28MB):
  # cp file_to_copy /tmp/mnt/ ; sync
  # md5sum /tmp/mnt/file_to_copy
  2efc9f32e4267782b11d63d2f128a363  /tmp/mnt/file_to_copy
  # umount /tmp/mnt 
  # mount /dev/nbd0p1 /tmp/mnt/
  # md5sum /tmp/mnt/file_to_copy
  42b0a3bf73f704d03ce301716d7654de  /tmp/mnt/file_to_copy

  The first hash was obviously the right one.

  On a previous attempt I did, I spotted thanks to vbindiff that parts of the 
file were just filed with 0s instead of actual data.
  It will randomly work after several attempts to write.

  Version information:
  # qemu-nbd --version
  qemu-nbd version 0.0.1
  Written by Anthony Liguori.

  Cheers,

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