[PATCH v3 3/4] block: Add support to warn on backing file change without format

[Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

For now, this is a mechanical addition; all callers pass false. But
the next patch will use it to improve 'qemu-img rebase -u' when
selecting a backing file with no format.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/block/block.h |  4 ++--
 block.c               | 13 ++++++++++---
 block/qcow2.c         |  2 +-
 block/stream.c        |  2 +-
 blockdev.c            |  3 ++-
 qemu-img.c            |  4 ++--
 6 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/block/block.h b/include/block/block.h
index cd6b5b95aad2..8b1dd94f7629 100644
--- a/include/block/block.h
+++ b/include/block/block.h
@@ -350,8 +350,8 @@ BlockMeasureInfo *bdrv_measure(BlockDriver *drv, QemuOpts *opts,
 void bdrv_get_geometry(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t *nb_sectors_ptr);
 void bdrv_refresh_limits(BlockDriverState *bs, Error **errp);
 int bdrv_commit(BlockDriverState *bs);
-int bdrv_change_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs,
-    const char *backing_file, const char *backing_fmt);
+int bdrv_change_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *backing_file,
+                             const char *backing_fmt, bool warn);
 void bdrv_register(BlockDriver *bdrv);
 int bdrv_drop_intermediate(BlockDriverState *top, BlockDriverState *base,
                            const char *backing_file_str);
diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 957630b1c5d5..43452976acdc 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -1291,7 +1291,8 @@ static int bdrv_backing_update_filename(BdrvChild *c, BlockDriverState *base,
     }

     ret = bdrv_change_backing_file(parent, filename,
-                                   base->drv ? base->drv->format_name : "");
+                                   base->drv ? base->drv->format_name : "",
+                                   false);
     if (ret < 0) {
         error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Could not update backing file link");
     }
@@ -4535,8 +4536,8 @@ int bdrv_check(BlockDriverState *bs,
  *            image file header
  * -ENOTSUP - format driver doesn't support changing the backing file
  */
-int bdrv_change_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs,
-    const char *backing_file, const char *backing_fmt)
+int bdrv_change_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *backing_file,
+                             const char *backing_fmt, bool warn)
 {
     BlockDriver *drv = bs->drv;
     int ret;
@@ -4550,6 +4551,12 @@ int bdrv_change_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs,
         return -EINVAL;
     }

+    if (warn && backing_file && !backing_fmt) {
+        warn_report("Deprecated use of backing file without explicit "
+                    "backing format, use of this image requires "
+                    "potentially unsafe format probing");
+    }
+
     if (drv->bdrv_change_backing_file != NULL) {
         ret = drv->bdrv_change_backing_file(bs, backing_file, backing_fmt);
     } else {
diff --git a/block/qcow2.c b/block/qcow2.c
index 3640e8c07d0a..0abd6073fc34 100644
--- a/block/qcow2.c
+++ b/block/qcow2.c
@@ -3506,7 +3506,7 @@ qcow2_co_create(BlockdevCreateOptions *create_options, Error **errp)
         }

         ret = bdrv_change_backing_file(blk_bs(blk), qcow2_opts->backing_file,
-                                       backing_format);
+                                       backing_format, false);
         if (ret < 0) {
             error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Could not assign backing file '%s' "
                              "with format '%s'", qcow2_opts->backing_file,
diff --git a/block/stream.c b/block/stream.c
index 5562ccbf577a..7c4d8ee0bcf1 100644
--- a/block/stream.c
+++ b/block/stream.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static int stream_prepare(Job *job)
             }
         }
         bdrv_set_backing_hd(bs, base, &local_err);
-        ret = bdrv_change_backing_file(bs, base_id, base_fmt);
+        ret = bdrv_change_backing_file(bs, base_id, base_fmt, false);
         if (local_err) {
             error_report_err(local_err);
             return -EPERM;
diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
index 3e44fa766b8f..c961df4c76b9 100644
--- a/blockdev.c
+++ b/blockdev.c
@@ -3796,7 +3796,8 @@ void qmp_change_backing_file(const char *device,
     }

     ret = bdrv_change_backing_file(image_bs, backing_file,
-                               image_bs->drv ? image_bs->drv->format_name : "");
+                                   image_bs->drv ? image_bs->drv->format_name : "",
+                                   false);

     if (ret < 0) {
         error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Could not change backing file to '%s'",
diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c
index 804630a368d6..b9375427404d 100644
--- a/qemu-img.c
+++ b/qemu-img.c
@@ -3637,9 +3637,9 @@ static int img_rebase(int argc, char **argv)
      * doesn't change when we switch the backing file.
      */
     if (out_baseimg && *out_baseimg) {
-        ret = bdrv_change_backing_file(bs, out_baseimg, out_basefmt);
+        ret = bdrv_change_backing_file(bs, out_baseimg, out_basefmt, false);
     } else {
-        ret = bdrv_change_backing_file(bs, NULL, NULL);
+        ret = bdrv_change_backing_file(bs, NULL, NULL, false);
     }

     if (ret == -ENOSPC) {
-- 
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