Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC for-2.3 1/1] block: New command line option --no-format-probing

[Eric Blake]

On 03/23/2015 11:23 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 20/03/2015 15:19, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>> If (a working version of) this makes it in 2.3, libvirt WILL use it in
>>> the next release.  It will take me less than 5 minutes to write up the
>>> libvirt patch, as long as the new option is advertised via
>>> query-command-line-options (which means that QMP introspection of the
>>> new option is a must for v2 :)
> 
> Why can't libvirt just add ,format=raw instead of leaving out the format
> key altogether?

Libvirt DOES add format=raw.  This patch is an extra insurance policy to
guarantee that libvirt does not have any code paths that omit the
explicit format (as we have had a couple of CVEs in libvirt over the
years where that was the case).

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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