Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12 v5] file-posix: specify expected filetypes

[Eric Blake]

On 03/21/2018 03:01 PM, John Snow wrote:
> Adjust each caller of raw_open_common to specify if they are expecting
> host and character devices or not. Tighten expectations of file types upon
> open in the common code and refuse types that are not expected.
>
> This has two effects:
>
> (1) Character and block devices are now considered deprecated for the
>      'file' driver, which expects only S_IFREG, and

Which may have interesting effects on v2v's attempt to use qemu-img on 
/dev/null as a quick feature probe of qemu-img...
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg05753.html

but we may want to special-case that one in a separate patch.

> (2) no file-posix driver (file, host_cdrom, or host_device) can open
>      directories now.
>
> I don't think there's a legitimate reason to open directories as if
> they were files. This prevents QEMU from opening and attempting to probe
> a directory inode, which can break in exciting ways. One of those ways
> is lseek on ext4/xfs, which will return 0x7fffffffffffffff as the file
> size instead of EISDIR. This can coax QEMU into responding with a
> confusing "file too big" instead of "Hey, that's not a file".
>
> See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1739304/
> Signed-off-by: John Snow <address@hidden>
> ---
>
> v5: rebase for 2.12.0-rc0

Still makes sense as a 2.12 bugfix.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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