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Modify qemu-img can not create local filename contain ":"

PATCH In review Jun Li 3 participants 4 messages Mar 3, 2014

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PATCH 1/1 Modify qemu-img can not create local filename contain ":"

Such as how to visit glusterfs:
file=gluster://1.2.3.4/testvol/a.img file=gluster+tcp://1.2.3.4/testvol/a.img file=gluster+tcp://1.2.3.4:24007/testvol/dir/a.img file=gluster+tcp://[1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8]/testvol/dir/a.img file=gluster+tcp://[1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8]:24007/testvol/dir/a.img file=gluster+tcp://server.domain.com:24007/testvol/dir/a.img file=gluster+rdma://1.2.3.4:24007/testvol/a.img
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So if only the path contain "://", the path maybe contain a protocol. So use strstr() to replace func strcspn().

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 block.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
block.c +3 -3
index 2fd5482..aead10e 100644
@@ -237,12 +237,12 @@ static int path_has_protocol(const char *path)
         is_windows_drive_prefix(path)) {
         return 0;
     }
-    p = path + strcspn(path, ":/\\");
+    p = strstr(path, ":/\\");
 #else
-    p = path + strcspn(path, ":/");
+    p = strstr(path, "://");
 #endif
 
-    return *p == ':';
+    return p != NULL;
 }
 
 int path_is_absolute(const char *path)
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Quoted 12 lines · Jun Li

Such as how to visit glusterfs:
file=gluster://1.2.3.4/testvol/a.img file=gluster+tcp://1.2.3.4/testvol/a.img file=gluster+tcp://1.2.3.4:24007/testvol/dir/a.img file=gluster+tcp://[1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8]/testvol/dir/a.img file=gluster+tcp://[1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8]:24007/testvol/dir/a.img file=gluster+tcp://server.domain.com:24007/testvol/dir/a.img file=gluster+rdma://1.2.3.4:24007/testvol/a.img
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So if only the path contain "://", the path maybe contain a protocol. So use strstr() to replace func strcspn().

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  block.c | 6 +++---
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Currently, a protocol prefix is only defined to end with a colon, not with ":/" or "://". There are already protocol block drivers which do not require a slash after the colon such as blkdebug or blkverify and I deem it rather impossible to redefine their filename format now (in order to make them use ":/").

Thus, I do not think it will be this easy. I am in fact not even sure whether it is possible at all (automagically doing the right thing) – currently, a colon simpy is the separator between protocol and filename. Just using the "file" protocol per default for the whole filename if there is no protocol with a name equal to the pre-colon part is probably not what we want, since the user may actually be referring to some protocol that the qemu version he/she is using does not support (yet), in which case creating a file with a name including the pre-colon part (the protocol name) is most probably not the right thing to do.

Henceforth, in my opinion, we either have to ask the user in that case or we introduce some new option which disables protocol prefixes. I think the easiest way to do the latter is to introduce a bdrv_parse_filename() function for the "file" protocol drivers which remove a "file:" prefix if given. Then, the user could just specify "file:foo:bar.img" to reference a file named "foo:bar.img".

Currently, the behavior is that such a prefix will be interpreted correctly (the "file" protocol is selected) but it is not removed. Thus, "file:foo:bar.img" will actually reference a file named "file:foo:bar.img". One could argue that removing the prefix therefore breaks current behavior, but I sincerely hope nobody has relied on that behavior so far.

Max

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Quoted 6 lines · Max Reitz

Currently, a protocol prefix is only defined to end with a colon, not with ":/" or "://". There are already protocol block drivers which do not require a slash after the colon such as blkdebug or blkverify and I deem it rather impossible to redefine their filename format now (in order to make them use ":/").

It should ALWAYS be possible to open a file via absolute path, or via './file:with:colon'. That is, our check for a protocol should be any prefix that contains a ':' prior to a '/'.

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Thus, I do not think it will be this easy. I am in fact not even sure whether it is possible at all (automagically doing the right thing) – currently, a colon simpy is the separator between protocol and filename. Just using the "file" protocol per default for the whole filename if there is no protocol with a name equal to the pre-colon part is probably not what we want, since the user may actually be referring to some protocol that the qemu version he/she is using does not support (yet), in which case creating a file with a name including the pre-colon part (the protocol name) is most probably not the right thing to do.

If the user wants a file name that contains a colon, use either an absolute path name, or prefix the relative name with './'. Either way should cause a '/' to occur before the first ':', and since a protocol consists only of a prefix prior to ':' without '/', it then becomes obvious that a file name is intended.

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Henceforth, in my opinion, we either have to ask the user in that case or we introduce some new option which disables protocol prefixes. I think the easiest way to do the latter is to introduce a bdrv_parse_filename() function for the "file" protocol drivers which remove a "file:" prefix if given. Then, the user could just specify "file:foo:bar.img" to reference a file named "foo:bar.img".

Yes, this would also make sense, if you can't live with './foo:bar.img'.

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Currently, the behavior is that such a prefix will be interpreted correctly (the "file" protocol is selected) but it is not removed. Thus, "file:foo:bar.img" will actually reference a file named "file:foo:bar.img". One could argue that removing the prefix therefore breaks current behavior, but I sincerely hope nobody has relied on that behavior so far.

I think the fact that the file: prefix is NOT removed before hitting the filesystem is a bug worth fixing - it should be fairly obvious that the relative name in the filesystem should not include the 'file:' prefix, but that 'file:' was the protocol that forced interpretation of the rest of the string as a local filename.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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Quoted 10 lines · Eric Blake
Quoted 5 lines · Max Reitz

Currently, a protocol prefix is only defined to end with a colon, not with ":/" or "://". There are already protocol block drivers which do not require a slash after the colon such as blkdebug or blkverify and I deem it rather impossible to redefine their filename format now (in order to make them use ":/").

It should ALWAYS be possible to open a file via absolute path, or via './file:with:colon'. That is, our check for a protocol should be any prefix that contains a ':' prior to a '/'.

Oh, yes, you are right, I forgot about that.

Max

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Quoted 10 lines

Thus, I do not think it will be this easy. I am in fact not even sure whether it is possible at all (automagically doing the right thing) – currently, a colon simpy is the separator between protocol and filename. Just using the "file" protocol per default for the whole filename if there is no protocol with a name equal to the pre-colon part is probably not what we want, since the user may actually be referring to some protocol that the qemu version he/she is using does not support (yet), in which case creating a file with a name including the pre-colon part (the protocol name) is most probably not the right thing to do.

If the user wants a file name that contains a colon, use either an absolute path name, or prefix the relative name with './'. Either way should cause a '/' to occur before the first ':', and since a protocol consists only of a prefix prior to ':' without '/', it then becomes obvious that a file name is intended.

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Henceforth, in my opinion, we either have to ask the user in that case or we introduce some new option which disables protocol prefixes. I think the easiest way to do the latter is to introduce a bdrv_parse_filename() function for the "file" protocol drivers which remove a "file:" prefix if given. Then, the user could just specify "file:foo:bar.img" to reference a file named "foo:bar.img".

Yes, this would also make sense, if you can't live with './foo:bar.img'.

Quoted 6 lines

Currently, the behavior is that such a prefix will be interpreted correctly (the "file" protocol is selected) but it is not removed. Thus, "file:foo:bar.img" will actually reference a file named "file:foo:bar.img". One could argue that removing the prefix therefore breaks current behavior, but I sincerely hope nobody has relied on that behavior so far.

I think the fact that the file: prefix is NOT removed before hitting the filesystem is a bug worth fixing - it should be fairly obvious that the relative name in the filesystem should not include the 'file:' prefix, but that 'file:' was the protocol that forced interpretation of the rest of the string as a local filename.