block: Error if backing file fails during creation without -u

Back in commit 6e6e55f5 (Jul 2017, v2.10), we tweaked the code to warn
if the backing file could not be opened but the user gave a size,
unless the user also passes the -u option to bypass the open of the
backing file.  As one common reason for failure to open the backing
file is when there is mismatch in the requested backing format in
relation to what the backing file actually contains, we actually want
to open the backing file and ensure that it has the right format in as
many cases as possible.  iotest 301 for qcow demonstrates how
detecting explicit format mismatch is useful to prevent the creation
of an image that would probe differently than the user requested.  Now
is the time to finally turn the warning an error, as promised.

Note that the original warning was added prior to our documentation of
an official deprecation policy (eb22aeca, also Jul 2017), and because
the warning didn't mention the word "deprecated", we never actually
remembered to document it as such.  But the warning has been around
long enough that I don't see prolonging it another two releases.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200706203954.341758-7-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 98cad57cda683ca7185e1c09687836fe805e0aac..6925e57d7ca04326faaca3c2d013f0f57c577ced 100644 (file)
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -6128,16 +6128,8 @@ void bdrv_img_create(const char *filename, const char *fmt,
         bs = bdrv_open(full_backing, NULL, backing_options, back_flags,
                        &local_err);
         g_free(full_backing);
-        if (!bs && size != -1) {
-            /* Couldn't open BS, but we have a size, so it's nonfatal */
-            warn_reportf_err(local_err,
-                            "Could not verify backing image. "
-                            "This may become an error in future versions.\n");
-            local_err = NULL;
-        } else if (!bs) {
-            /* Couldn't open bs, do not have size */
-            error_append_hint(&local_err,
-                              "Could not open backing image to determine size.\n");
+        if (!bs) {
+            error_append_hint(&local_err, "Could not open backing image.\n");
             goto out;
         } else {
             if (size == -1) {

diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
index aa9fdc8c53fa904695787216201e49a3db5a36c0..c014e049c3188516af2dbdf90d9d723d14590cd5 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
@@ -555,6 +555,18 @@ can be rewritten as::
 All options specified in ``-o`` are image creation options, so
 they are now rejected when used with ``-n`` to skip image creation.
 
+
+``qemu-img create -b bad file $size`` (removed in 5.1)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+When creating an image with a backing file that could not be opened,
+``qemu-img create`` used to issue a warning about the failure but
+proceed with the image creation if an explicit size was provided.
+However, as the ``-u`` option exists for this purpose, it is safer to
+enforce that any failure to open the backing image (including if the
+backing file is missing or an incorrect format was specified) is an
+error when ``-u`` is not used.
+
 Command line options
 --------------------
 

diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/111.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/111.out
index 5279c462fc21b7c7f2dd05a32b0f758df2663515..ba034e5c588637ee0ca02b5771f250f192bfebcf 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/111.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/111.out
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 QA output created by 111
 qemu-img: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.inexistent': No such file or directory
-Could not open backing image to determine size.
+Could not open backing image.
 *** done

diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/301.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/301.out
index adaf11d42da8b726f1936e2c0a46674b89158982..281a16d87a16f35cf3d0df994bb63f18c3711f2a 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/301.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/301.out
@@ -17,18 +17,15 @@ backing file: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base
 
 == mismatched command line detection ==
 qemu-img: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: invalid VMDK image descriptor
-Could not open backing image to determine size.
-qemu-img: warning: Could not verify backing image. This may become an error in future versions.
-invalid VMDK image descriptor
-Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=33554432 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base backing_fmt=vmdk
+Could not open backing image.
+qemu-img: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: invalid VMDK image descriptor
+Could not open backing image.
 
 qemu-img: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: Image creation needs a size parameter
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=33554432 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base backing_fmt=vmdk
 
-qemu-img: warning: Could not verify backing image. This may become an error in future versions.
-Unknown driver 'garbage'
-Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=33554432 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base backing_fmt=garbage
-qemu-img: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: unrecognized backing format 'garbage'
+qemu-img: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: Unknown driver 'garbage'
+Could not open backing image.
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=33554432 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base backing_fmt=garbage
 qemu-img: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: unrecognized backing format 'garbage'
 image: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT