Re: [PATCH v2] qemu: Reject updating unsupported disk information

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On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 04:21:29PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
On 10.07.2015 08:20, Martin Kletzander wrote:
If one calls update-device with information that is not updatable,
libvirt reports success even though no data were updated.  The example
used in the bug linked below uses updating device with <boot order='2'/>
which, in my opinion, is a valid thing to request from user's
perspective.  Mainly since we properly error out if user wants to update
such data on a network device for example.

And since there are many things that might happen (update-device on disk
basically knows just how to change removable media), check for what's
changing and moreover, since the function might be usable in other
drivers (updating only disk path is a valid possibility) let's abstract
it for any two disks.

We can't possibly check for everything since for many fields our code
does not properly differentiate between default and unspecified values.
Even though this could be changed, I don't feel like it's worth the
complexity so it's not the aim of this patch.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007228
Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Notes:
    v2:
     - Don't say 'NULL' when it should be 'unspecified'
     - Don't blindly copy field name into the error message, but use space
       instead of dot.  That way it looks the same as in the XML provided.
     - Check strings properly instead of addresses

 src/conf/domain_conf.c   | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/conf/domain_conf.h   |   2 +
 src/libvirt_private.syms |   1 +
 src/qemu/qemu_driver.c   |   3 ++
 4 files changed, 139 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index 1f7862b00463..69e5df27c270 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -5690,6 +5690,139 @@ virDomainDiskFindByBusAndDst(virDomainDefPtr def,
     return NULL;
 }

+
+/*
+ * Makes sure the @disk differs from @orig_disk only by the source
+ * path and nothing else.  Fields that are being checked and the
+ * information whether they are nullable (may not be specified) or is
+ * taken from the virDomainDiskDefFormat() code.
+ */
+bool
+virDomainDiskDiffersSourceOnly(virDomainDiskDefPtr disk,
+                               virDomainDiskDefPtr orig_disk)
+{

Nice work, but I think this should go somewhere into src/qemu/. I mean,
some o these fields are not changeable as a domain is running. But some
might be depending on the underlying hypervisor. For instance, xen might
be able to change serial number of a HDD. On the other hand, that might
be just a few corner cases I'm talking about, so it's up to you what you
prefer more.


Well, I'd prefer it to be here for now.  And that's also why I didn't
call the function virDomainDiskUpdatable() as that has nothing to do
with updating a disk, it's just a "coincidence" that qemu uses it for
that purpose ;)

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