This shouldn't happen under any normal circumstances. However, it looks like it's possible to achieve this with corrupted images. Without this patch raw_pread is hanging in an endless loop in such cases.
The patch is not affecting growable files, for which such reads happen in normal use cases. raw_pread_aligned already handles these cases and won't return zero in the first place. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> --- block/raw-posix.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/raw-posix.c b/block/raw-posix.c index 4d79881..6ef1cff 100644 --- a/block/raw-posix.c +++ b/block/raw-posix.c @@ -403,8 +403,12 @@ static int raw_pread(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t offset, size = ALIGNED_BUFFER_SIZE; ret = raw_pread_aligned(bs, offset, s->aligned_buf, size); - if (ret < 0) + if (ret < 0) { return ret; + } else if (ret == 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "raw_pread: read beyond end of file\n"); + abort(); + } size = ret; if (size > count) -- 1.6.5.2