Alberto Garcia 3db2bd5508 commit: reopen overlay_bs before base ...

'block-commit' needs write access to two different nodes of the chain:

- 'base', because that's where the data is written to.
- the overlay of 'top', because it needs to update the backing file
  string to point to 'base' after the operation.

Both images have to be opened in read-write mode, and commit_start()
takes care of reopening them if necessary.

With the current implementation, however, when overlay_bs is reopened
in read-write mode it has the side effect of making 'base' read-only
again, eventually making 'block-commit' fail.

This needs to be fixed in bdrv_reopen(), but until we get to that it
can be worked around simply by swapping the order of base and
overlay_bs in the reopen queue.

In order to reproduce this bug, overlay_bs needs to be initially in
read-only mode. That is: the 'top' parameter of 'block-commit' cannot
be the active layer nor its immediate backing chain.

Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

2015-11-11 16:25:47 +01:00

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