Bug 1004420 - Backport qcow2 corruption prevention patches
Summary: Backport qcow2 corruption prevention patches
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm
Version: 6.6
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Hanna Czenczek
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Depends On: 1004347
Blocks: 1002699
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-04 15:23 UTC by Kevin Wolf
Modified: 2014-12-11 16:13 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.427.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 1004347
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-10-14 06:50:28 UTC
Target Upstream Version:


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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2014:1490 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE qemu-kvm bug fix and enhancement update 2014-10-14 01:28:27 UTC

Description Kevin Wolf 2013-09-04 15:23:01 UTC
Once the RHEL 6.6 tree is open, it would be useful to have it backported there
as well. As it's only prevention, we'll not include it in 6.5.


+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1004347 +++

Upstream commits d4ca092a to ca0eca91 implements sanity checks for writes to a
qcow2 image as follows:

> If a qcow2 image file becomes corrupted, any write may inadvertently
> overwrite important metadata structures such as the L1 table. This
> series adds functionality for detecting, preventing and (to some extent)
> repairing such collisions.

This is something that we'll want to have in RHEL 7.

Comment 1 Ayal Baron 2014-01-29 10:03:33 UTC
Please note that this bug affects RHEV customers and we would like to see this in 6.6
Thanks.

Comment 6 Jeff Nelson 2014-05-23 18:08:10 UTC
Fix included in qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.427.el6

Comment 16 Sibiao Luo 2014-08-11 08:58:10 UTC
Verify this issue.

host info:
# uname -r && rpm -q qemu-kvm
2.6.32-491.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.436.el6.x86_64

# rpm -ivh qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.436.el6.src.rpm
# rpmbuild -bp --nodeps /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/qemu-kvm.spec
# tar -zxvf /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2.tar.gz
qemu-iotests]# pwd
/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2/tests/qemu-iotests
qemu-iotests]# export QEMU_PROG=/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm

qemu-iotests]# ./check -qcow2 060
QEMU          -- /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm
QEMU_IMG      -- /usr/bin/qemu-img
QEMU_IO       -- /usr/bin/qemu-io 
QEMU_NBD      -- 
IMGFMT        -- qcow2
IMGPROTO      -- file
PLATFORM      -- Linux/x86_64 intel-5504-12-2 2.6.32-491.el6.x86_64
SOCKET_SCM_HELPER -- 

060        
Passed all 1 tests

According to above, comment #13 and comment #15, set this issue to VERIFIED status.

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 06:50:28 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1490.html


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