If vmdk blindly tries to use path_combine() using bs->file->filename as the base file name, this will result in a bad error message for JSON file names when calling bdrv_open(). It is better to only try bs->file->exact_filename; if that is empty, bs->file->filename will be useless for path_combine() and an error should be emitted (containing bs->file->filename because bs->file->exact_filename is empty).
Note that s->create_type does not need to be freed on error because it will be freed by the caller (which ultimately is vmdk_open()). Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> --- block/vmdk.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/vmdk.c b/block/vmdk.c index 2cbfd3e..fe549c2 100644 --- a/block/vmdk.c +++ b/block/vmdk.c @@ -894,7 +894,14 @@ static int vmdk_open_desc_file(BlockDriverState *bs, int flags, char *buf, } s->create_type = g_strdup(ct); s->desc_offset = 0; - ret = vmdk_parse_extents(buf, bs, bs->file->filename, errp); + + if (!bs->file->exact_filename[0]) { + error_setg(errp, "Cannot use extents with VMDK descriptor file '%s'", + bs->file->filename); + ret = -EINVAL; + goto exit; + } + ret = vmdk_parse_extents(buf, bs, bs->file->exact_filename, errp); exit: return ret; } -- 1.9.3