As can be seen in the final patch of this series, there are certain cases where the current repair implementation of qcow2 actually damages the image further because it allocates new clusters for the refcount structure which overlap with existing but according to the on-disk refcounts (which are assumed to be wrong to begin with) unallocated clusters.
This series fixes this by completely recreating the refcount structure based on the in-memory information calculated during the check operation if the possibility of damaging the image while repairing the refcount structures in-place exists. v3: - Reorganised patch 2 and 3 for a smaller diff: [Benoît] - Squashed 3 into 2 (makes patch 2 longer but avoids needless diff blob resulting from the beginning of qcow2_check_refcounts()) - check_refblocks() is below calculate_refcounts() after patch 2, this minimizes diff for patch 2; patch 3 pulls it up again - Made a small functional difference from patch 2 into an own patch (patch 4) - Patch 2 is now mostly only code movement with additionally adding dereferenciation to refcount_table and nb_clusters in check_refblocks() and calculate_refcounts(), because those parameters are (and must be) given by reference there; the same applies to highest_cluster in compare_refcounts() - Patch 6 (prev. 5): Removed a superfluous empty line and rebased on the new patch 2 which no longer changes the g_realloc() (or g_renew() by now) call to g_try_realloc() because this call is removed in this patch anyway - Patch 10 (prev. 9): Renamed test file from 101 to 104 git-backport-diff against v2: Key: [----] : patches are identical [####] : number of functional differences between upstream/downstream patch [down] : patch is downstream-only The flags [FC] indicate (F)unctional and (C)ontextual differences, respectively 001/10:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Fix leaks in dirty images' 002/10:[down] 'qcow2: Split qcow2_check_refcounts()' 003/10:[down] 'qcow2: Pull check_refblocks() up' 004/10:[down] 'qcow2: Reuse refcount table in calculate_refcounts()' 005/10:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Fix refcount blocks beyond image end' 006/10:[0013] [FC] 'qcow2: Do not perform potentially damaging repairs' 007/10:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Rebuild refcount structure during check' 008/10:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Clean up after refcount rebuild' 009/10:[----] [--] 'iotests: Fix test outputs' 010/10:[0004] [FC] 'iotests: Add test for potentially damaging repairs' Max Reitz (10): qcow2: Fix leaks in dirty images qcow2: Split qcow2_check_refcounts() qcow2: Pull check_refblocks() up qcow2: Reuse refcount table in calculate_refcounts() qcow2: Fix refcount blocks beyond image end qcow2: Do not perform potentially damaging repairs qcow2: Rebuild refcount structure during check qcow2: Clean up after refcount rebuild iotests: Fix test outputs iotests: Add test for potentially damaging repairs block/qcow2-refcount.c | 644 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- block/qcow2.c | 2 +- tests/qemu-iotests/039.out | 10 +- tests/qemu-iotests/060.out | 10 +- tests/qemu-iotests/061.out | 18 +- tests/qemu-iotests/104 | 98 +++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/104.out | 46 ++++ tests/qemu-iotests/group | 1 + 8 files changed, 623 insertions(+), 206 deletions(-) create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/104 create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/104.out -- 2.0.4